Re: ProDOS and the Y2K (year 2000)

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au> wrote:

> >Pim Blokland <pDOTblokland@spcgroup.nl> wrote:
> 
> >> Randy Shackelford wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Well considering that a zero year field is an invalid date for ProDOS,
> >> > I'd say
> >> 
> >> Is it? I thought that only an entirely empty date field was a problem.
> >> This occurs only on January 1, 2000. It will be gone on the second day.
> >> I need to check this.
> 
> I would have thought that only 0/0/00 would display as <NO DATE> while
> 1/1/00 would be quite valid. I guess I should try this out.

Good point!  I've been working too much with zero-relative dates at
work.  :-)

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