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Re: IIGS clock wrong day of week/right month/day?
AllNews.NBNet wrote:
>
> > However, when we started the program back up, while the month/day were
> > right, the day of the week was off by one day (it reported 3/9/00 to be
> > Wednesday instead of Thursday
>
> Sounds like a Y2K problem. I suspect that the extra day in February is not
> being recognized. Years ending in 0 are not normally a Leap Year. Some
> programmers did not realize that 2000 was an exception when they programmed
> code using date calculations or displays.
>
> Brian
>
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More likely they didn't think the program would still be used in 2000.
Never under estimate the tenacity of the Apple II family.