Re: IIGS clock wrong day of week/right month/day?

[greg@apple2.com]

In article <38CAE4B4.A85@iname.com>,
boucher1@iname.com wrote:
>"AllNews.NBNet" <learnsoft4@nb.aibn.com> wrote:
>>Jack Countryman <jcountry@seidata.com> wrote:

>>> However, when we started the program back up, while the month/day 
>>> were right, the day of the week was off by one day (it reported 
>>> 3/9/00 to be Wednesday instead of Thursday

>> Sounds like a Y2K problem. I suspect that the extra day in February 
>> is not being recognized. Years ending in 0 are not normally a Leap 
>> Year.

Really?  1980, 1960, 1940, 1920 all end with a zero and were leap years.

>> Some programmers did not realize that 2000 was an exception

Actually, the exception to the exception.

>> when they programmed code using date calculations or displays.

> More likely they didn't think the program would still be used in 2000.
> Never under estimate the tenacity of the Apple II family

And thus wouldn't bother with the second rule on leap years, so would 
assume 2000 was a leap year anyway.  It is more likely that anything 
failing to consider 2000 as a leap year would also fail to consider 1996 
and 2004 leap years.  My watch needs a date adjustment every 4 years (I 
doubt it will still function into year 2100), and I have a VCR that 
cares not for month or day, let alone year, keeping track of weekdays 
only.

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