Re: Dates [Fmly: More on C128D Floppy Drive]

From: Howard Herman (hlh_at_panix.com)
Date: 2000-01-05 17:16:39

Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> 
> ::Cameron, it seems you suffer from a Y2K bug ;-) My PC wrapped around to
> ::1980, BTW, but setting the date manually helped.
> 
> It's this old version of elm. I have root to this box, so I can replace
> it, but the department manager is taking his time giving me the green light.

Your email here has a date of:

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 100 07:34:56 -0800 (PST)

However, in its listing window, Netscape Messenger has it dated as:

12/31/1969 7:00PM

Now, I just checked my Quattro Pro, and its dating function defines day
number one as 12/31/1899.  Today, January 5th, 2000 is day number 36530.

I always thought that programs like Quattro and Messenger got their
dating from the sys, Windows98. 

I guess this is not the case....

An ms-dos program I run frequently, needs to have the year manually
entered as 100.  It then accurately shows the year as 2000 (the apparent
program logic: 1 is added to 19, for 20, and 00 is the 2 digit year), and
correctly does its dating calculations.

For 2001 I will need to enter 101....
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