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Re: GSOS.P8.Anatomy
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999 21:30:13 +1300, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David
Empson) wrote:
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>Another relevant technote is ProDOS #28: ProDOS Dates--2000 and Beyond.
>This defines what the 7-bit year field in the date is supposed to do
>(valid range is 00-99 only; 40-99 are 19xx, 00-39 are 20xx).
Why wouldn't you use a higher limit for 21st century years? I mean,
why is it that 40-99 are 20th century and 00-39 are 21st century?
Shouldn't they make it 00-82, or at least 00-70?
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