y2k bug inherent in DateType?

[Michael Hutchens]

Well I seem to have started a bit of a firestorm with my innocent question.
I was in fact missing the obvious -- that the year the number of years
since 1904 (I'd been assuming it was the number of years since 1900 despite
seeing the DateTime.h #defines a gazillion times).  The result however is
that I've done what lots of other folks did -- my program handles dates out
to 2050 (not much of an improvement, but something) because of a lot of
workaround programming (that section of my code is UGLY).

So I'm curious now -- you can all tell that I'm a dilettante programmer (in
my other life I'm about to be a doctor).  Why can the palmOS only handle a
127 year span when only a few bits more could have obviated the whole
problem?  Seems penny-wise and pound-foolish.

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Michael Hutchens
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