Re: y2k bug inherent in DateType?

[Kenneth Albanowski]

On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Marcel Guldemond wrote:

> Say you have a survey that's asking a very old person when their parents
> were born?  Or currently, for that matter, what if your survey is asking
> someone who is 98 years old what they're birthdate is?  It could easily
> go back that far.

FWIW, my exerience in doing some related work (astronomy calculations) is
that the OS date/time routines are generally not of much use in any case. 
(Speaking generally here, not just of PalmOS). Whenever I need to do such
things, I end up rolling my own code. Never mind whether y2k is the reason
of the OS limitations. 

I expect any y2k limit on the Palm devices will be hitting the common
applications that _do_ use the OS facilities (Datebook, ToDo), much harder
then special-purpose survey or calculation apps that have special goals
and needs.

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