Re: Date 2000 a problem for Apple II?

[shack@io.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <63jsvf$jf$1@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
>In article <19971103022401.VAA01091@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
>SMITTOLA <smittola@aol.com> wrote:
>>Is any of the popular software (AWGS or AW Classic, ect.) going to be affected
>> by the looming  year 2000 date problem that we hear so much about for
>> mainframe systems?

The ProDOS file system does because if the year field is zero, the date
is invalid. I have to look in my manuals but I think the IIgs may not like
a zero year either.

>[1] Well, Apple *did* put in only a 6-year table into ProDOS 8, but
>they gave us a patcher program on their final versions so you can
>manually update that table. GS/OS does a better job not needlessly
>shaving bytes.

I'm gonna tell you the how-come of the six year table in ProDOS 8, so you
can quit spouting your inane (and false) opinion: the original Thunderclock,
the official supported clock card in the 8 bit days, does not keep track of
the year. Hence the clock driver calculates it from the day of the week.
It can only do that for six year chunks, so you have to update the table
when the time is up.

The IIgs clock returns the year so no problem with its driver. Maybe that's
a surprise to the Apple hater crowd since they're convinced that Apple
sabotaged the IIgs from the get-go evidently.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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