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Re: clock cards
- Subject: Re: clock cards
- From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
- Date: 1996/07/21
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Empsoft
- References: <4sluqq$fp8@arl-news-svc-2.compuserve.com> <4smd5a$eus@natasha.rmii.com> <4smv6l$q86@herald.concentric.net>
In article <4smv6l$q86@herald.concentric.net>, gtolar@concentric.net
(Glynne Tolar) wrote:
>ProDOS specs, bleh! Year calculated from day of week and month. Sheesh!
>Leave it to Apple to come up with this crap.
They didn't. They decided to support the most popular clock card (the
Thunderclock), and the Thunderclock doesn't report the year when you do
the simple call to put the date and time in the input buffer.
On the IIgs, or with most third-party clock drivers, ProDOS doesn't need
to be patched, because the clock isn't so brain-dead that it doesn't
report the year.
--
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail Mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND