Simpler than that.  I used a byte to represent the year.lowbyte.  And 
2047 is 07ff.  Never did like wasting bits  :-)

On 10 Jun 99 at 14:12, Nic Wise wrote:

> 'cos you used 10 bits to represent the year, and the other few for the 
> month and day (tho I can't quite work out how in the 2 mins I have to
> reply 
> to this :) )
> 
> ??
> 
> N
> 
> Rohit Gupta wrote:
> > 
> > Just an observation from one of my very old apps.  The next Y2K
> > like crisis is on 2047.  Can anyone figure out why ?  :-)
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Rohit
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