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

["Doug McNutt" <dmcnutt@macnauchtan.com>]

>> 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...

What I was referring to - and didn't make clear - is that the control panel
has a preference check box to "show century". When MPW formats a date for a
file it honors the setting. 

It would be fairly easy to include yet another user choice to set a cutoff
year for use in resolutions of ambiguous input by the toolbox. Another box
could set a month for resolving input in which the year is missing
altogether.

All should note that this is not about a Y2K problem. It's only a user
interface issue. It's also not a MacPerl issue. Over and permanently out.


-->From the USA, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it.


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