Re: Year 2000

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Paul H Bauer (pbauer@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
: AII programers!
:  
:  The Business Works accounting program  for the Apple II has been used in
: my office since 1986 and we have come to rely on it heavily. With the
: coming of the millennium I have done a couple of tests to see if the
: program will handle the 2000 dates and it seems it won"t. My background is
(etc.)

Sorry, I can't help with THAT problem.  But I thought I'd mention that I
did some checking on my ROM 01 IIgs at work.  It seems that the internal
clock, at least when read with the toolbox call routine I'm using with my
BASIC program...read the clock and add 1900 to the returned year...will be
okay until well past the millenium.  I did find the date when it would
crash...I want to say we're okay through 2044.  Hmmm...Why would the IIgs
calendar start in 1945, I wonder...

Just another reason an Apple IIgs will outlive an 80n86 PC, I guess. 
Interesting, when you consider that the MS-DOS calendar starts at
01/01/1980...but crashes at 12/31/1999, not 12/31/2079 as one might expect.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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