Re: [MacPerl] [ALBOT] Mac Y2K Oops?

[Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>]

On 2/6/99 at 21:42, dmcnutt@macnauchtan.com (Doug McNutt) wrote:

> Why do you say that? If it fits the published description it's as good as
> any other assumption.
> 
Time to change the assumption. I say go from 90 to 60.

> Perhaps Apple software ought to pay attention to the Date and Time
> preferences as set in the control panel. The MPW shell seems to.
How would that make any difference? It doesn't have any trouble knowing what the
current year is (and will be), the problem is how it arbitrarily resolves 2
digit dates and, as I understand it, the fallback assumption that the current
century is what was meant is what will blow up next year if an application uses
a toolbox call instead of some internal function to figure this out.

Richard Gordon
Gordon Consulting & Design
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