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Re: Weird IIgs Rom 01 bug
- Subject: Re: Weird IIgs Rom 01 bug
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 20 Oct 2004 08:18:08 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
- References: <5nmdd.34673$pi7.25157@bignews4.bellsouth.net>
- Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:5194
Jayson Smith wrote:
>In the
>clock setting menu, the years 00-39 correspond to 2000-2039, and the years
>40-99 correspond to 1940-1999. Therefore, you can't even set the clock to
>the year 2040 normally in the control panel. If you set it to the last day
>of the year 2039 and let it roll over, it'll go on into the year 2040, where
>about a month and five days later it'll mess up big time.
This is consistent with the Apple-standard Y2K fix for ProDOS dates,
where the century is implied by the last two year digits in just the
way you describe.
-michael
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