on 4/12/01 12:00 AM, Dénes Bogsányi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There is no purpose to making such a statement other than: "See how good Apple
> is and how far technically advanced it is". IMHO IT STINKS that Apple should
> make such a statement in the hope that no one will check up on it. It is
> SPINDOCTORING in the worst possible way.
Geesz, take a chill-ill, and lay off the caffeine. There is no dark
conspiracy at play here, or spindoctoring as you assume. If you had read the
information people have provided at various times in this thread, instead of
jumping to harebrained conclusions, you'd realize:
* Apple's statement is correct - the internal routines are able to handle
dates as far as 29,940 AD in the future.
* Just because a separate program (Date & Time control panel) doesn't go
beyond 2040 because of internal error checking, is no reflection on the
entire OS underneath. As someone else pointed out, you CAN set the date with
a separate product to anything within that range.
* When they are stating that "The current Mac OS date and time utilities
handle all dates between 30,081 B.C. and 29,940 A.D." then you are reading a
document written by, partially, marketroids, that have, potentially never
used a Mac in detail (just because it's a technote doesn't mean it hasn't
been checked and written by marketing). Furthermore, the word 'utilities'
does not necessarily refer to visible tools, but could very well refer to
the underlying utilities that deal with this.
* You need to take some relaxation classes.
Seriously, while it is unfortunate that the Date&Time control panel blocks
you off at 2040 (not because you might still be using that version of the OS
by then, but because there might be reasons to advance the time to advance
dates), I am quite certain that should you still be using the same machine
and same OS in 39 years' time, a solution will be provided by the large
chinese conglomerate that will own Apple computer by then.
Harry
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