Re: THE CLOCK by Mountain Computer Inc.

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Paul Schultz <pschultz@med.wayne.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, David Empson wrote:
> 
> > The IIgs built-in clock is definitely Y2K compliant.  The actual chip
> > used for the No Slot Clock (the Dallas SmartWatch) is OK, but the driver
> > could influence this.
> 
> The driver found in smartwatch.shk provides the century portion of the
> year so this driver should not contribute to any Y2K problem when used
> with the NSC.

ProDOS doesn't know about the century (or have anywhere to store it), so
any ProDOS clock driver should not be generating one (an independent
driver for something other than ProDOS may be another matter).

The utility for setting the clock might be displaying the century (and
accepting it when a new date is entered), and would therefore have to
get the rule right (years 0-39 = 20xx, 40-99 = 19xx).

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David Empson
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