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 In article <835982206_OASIS_@swampdog.demon.co.uk>
  guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison) wrote:-

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

Another method would be toget the existing software to read a date of
01/01/80 and then use a second program that runs after it to change the
date to 01/01/2000 etc., taking into account leap years and such like.
Also from what I can remember my version of the setter program will only
allow me to set dates from 1986 onwards!

Simon

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