GW> GW>> According to tests run by some of the other echo users the 2079
GW> GW>> thing is *NOT* a problem with OS/2 itself (by that I mean the
GW> GW>> base OS resident in memory) but with the support utilities
GW> GW>> provided with it.
GW>
GW> IM> Well, that distinction may mean something to somebody but like I
GW> IM> said, I set my RTC to 2080 and OS/2 came up thinking that it was
GW> IM> 1980.
[...]
GW> It _is_ important. If you interrogate the date/time APIs directly
GW> you will have the correct date and time returned, it's only the
GW> supplied utilities that have the problem.

Oh! Well I think I misunderstood you! When I played with the date I only 
noticed that the WarpCenter date was 1980; I didn't check the date from 
the command line. You consider WarpCenter to be a utility? I'll check 
the command line date when I get home.

So what you're telling me here is that an API call (QuerySysInfo or 
similar) will return the correct system date, correct?


GW> As I keep saying, the OS will no more commit harikari than DOS does
GW> at 1/1/2000, when some of the utility programs supplied with it
GW> break.

As long as that's all the problem we see, I won't mind that. I just 
don't want to be wasting my time writing software that I'm not going to 
be able to use 81 years from now!


GW> IM> Well, yeah, but sounds suspiciously like saying, "we're not
GW> IM> quite as bad as everyone else". [:) One of the reasons I don't
GW> IM> use C.
GW>
GW> No, you've drawn the wrong conclusion from that :-(. Both are
GW> problems, but the *NIX one is *much* more pervasive, it goes from
GW> the core *NIX kernal, through the OS utilities and on into nearly
GW> _all_ programs for it as they are normally written in C. And it's
GW> much closer in time...

Ah, okay. Yeah, I see where you're coming from on that one now. 


GW> I hope I've cleard up some of your difficulties.

Yes; thank you for taking the time. I misunderstood you on several 
points. I appreciate it.

Take care, George, and TTYL.

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