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 In article <835731928_OASIS_NEWS@esteem.demon.co.uk>
  simon@esteem.demon.co.uk (Simon Daw) said:-

> In article <835648590snz@bertste.demon.co.uk>
>  slider@bertste.demon.co.uk (Other World) wrote:-
>
>  >I've just noticed that my Forget-me-not clock only goes
>  >as far as the date 31/12/99.
>  >
>  >So what will happen to all my mail and news after this date? I can't
>  >set my internal clock to 01/01/2000! Infact it only has the year 1980
>  >to 1999.
>  >
>  >Is there a clock program that can set the time for the
>  >year 2000 on the atari, and can Demon also set their clock
>  >to enter the next milenium?
>  >
>  >I'd be interested in anyones comments or help in this
>  >matter, but it does seem a little perplexing.
>
>I would like to know the answer to this too.
>I've even experimented by setting the time to a few seconds before new
>year's day 2000 to see if the actual clock hardware will cope with a date
>of 01/01/2000 - it won't :-(
>From what I remember you get some sort of nonsence date/time.
>Somebody could make a killing by producing new hardware/software for the
>ST, because I know that I shall still be using my Atari in 2000 - unless
>it thinks otherwise!

This is a software problem. A simple fix would be for people to set 
the time to 01/01/80 and for some replacement RTC_AUTO.PRG to 
translate this into 01/01/2000 and set the system time accordingly.

Problem is ... does anyone know how to access the damn thing?


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk