Re: GSOS.P8.Anatomy

[Paul Schultz <pschultz@med.wayne.edu>]

On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Edhel Iaur, Esq. wrote:

> 
> 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?
> --

Because believe it or not there are valid reasons to have data with
dates with years in the 40-99 range in this century (such as Birthdates).
It ultimately is the choice of the OS designers what the cut-off years
are for the beginning and ending of the 100 year 'window' which the
OS recognizes. The 1940-to-2039 was picked (if I recall the text of
the ProDOS tech note) to correspond with the IIgs and Mac date limits.

Paul.

pschultz@med.wayne.edu
Paul Schultz