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echo: pascal
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from: `Jasen Betts`
date: 1999-03-03 00:00:00
subject: Any solution for this?

MB> Yes! But also a note, Windows 95, I'm not sure about '98, if you go to
MB> the clock, you won't be able to go over 2099, so yes, we'll have
MB> another problem next century.

MB> Can someone explain why they just can't do it from 1000 to 9999 ??
MB> There must be some mathematical thing to calculate at what day the
MB> begining of a year starts etc...

they're too lazy to use a few more bits - they only have 7 bits for the year so
that gives a range of 128 years... if 1980 is the start, dec 31 2107 is the
end.
                        
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