How do you set the system date to 2041? When I try, it beeps at me and
doesn't allow it.

> From: Eric Hildum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:45:02 -0700
> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Year 2000/2038 compliance problem
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> We have been doing a bit of follow on year 2000 compliance testing, looking
> at some future dates that are likely to problematic. One of these dates is
> 2038, which is the next rollover of many time keeping algorithms using 32
> bit counters. Entourage seems to have problems for some of these dates - for
> example, a message with a well formed date in the year 2041 will be
> displayed as originating in 1905. This is a bit puzzling as the Macintosh OS
> date handling routines properly support dates to (approximately) 30,000.
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> Eric Hildum 
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