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Re: The year 2000 and email?

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From: Guy Harrison
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 00:00
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 In article <835906684_OASIS_NEWS@esteem.demon.co.uk>
  simon@esteem.demon.co.uk (Simon Daw) said:-

>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!

Good point, saves knowing anything about the hardware as well.


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From: guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison)
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