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Re: Year 2000 Test Results
- Subject: Re: Year 2000 Test Results
- From: jdd@efn.org (John David Duncan)
- Date: 1997/11/13
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: OPN
Apple addressed the Year 2000 issue in September, 1990, when Dave Lyons
wrote ProDOS Technote 28.
(see http://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/apple2/Technotes/Tn/pdos/TN.PDOS.028 )
In effect, this says to ProDOS 8 application developers, "Prodos years 00
through 39 are supposed to refer to 2000 through 2039. Make sure your
application treats them that way."
The ProDOS FST in GS/OS is compliant with this. Presumably, so is Davex :)
And I've projected spreadsheet calculations beyond year 2000 in Appleworks
5.1 with no problem.
But many prodos 8 applications haven't been revised since 1991, so they
aren't very likely to comply with the technote.
(Sorry if this posting appears in the newsgroup twice. I think the first
copy got lost...)