> There are some OS date/time routines which handle long dates, and some that
> do not. We actually store all of our dates in the long format, and use it
> in most cases, but there are cases where we do not for one reason or
> another. Given that the System Software (Date & Time Control Panel) does
> not support dates after 2040, it is not a scenario that we have put any
> significant time into testing. There are no fundamental problems that have
> to be made, we try to do the right thing in most places. You can expect
> that we'll take the problem more seriously when Apple does.
>
> Dan
Dan,
The thing that got this little compliance testing was the unfortunate habit
of a number of our production Windows NT systems to randomly set their
clocks ahead thirty to fifty years. We are not sure if this is Windows, or
some hardware problem related to the CMOS clock (it is not batteries, or at
least should not be, as these are all new systems less than six months old).
Thus while you need not worry about Apple machines having a date past 2040,
the Wintel machines on the network seem bound and determined to cause all
sorts of imaginative problems.
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Eric Hildum
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