Re: Why is Date Changing

[Marsha <menacechgo@aol.com>]

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Robert Boucher <boucher1@alumni.utexas.net> wrote in 
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> On either Mac, the files on the Zip disk have dates
> in the 1940's, i.e., July 19, 1948. When I catalog the Zip disk on the
> IIe, the file dates are correct. All computers are showing the correct
> time.
> 

ProDOS used 2 bytes to hold year, month and day; and 2 bytes to hold hour 
and minute.

Macintosh's HFS+ file system uses 32bits containing the number of seconds 
since midnight, January 1, 1904, GMT. 
This is slightly different from HFS, where the value represents local time.

So somewhere (on the Mac) the conversion isn't taking place... I'd assume 
it is in either Apple File Exchange, PC Exchange, of File Exchange under 
OS9.

maybe also it isn't being really recognized as ProDOS?
see http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=16101