Well, on the one hand, Palm OS is in the same boat as Mac OS and Windows,
which time out in the same decade, and were created not too long ago as
well. And Palm OS is definitely not as bad as Newton OS with its 17 year
lifespan.
On the other hand, I agree with you...
-- Keith Rollin
-- Palm OS Emulator engineer
Steve Patt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/07/99 08:01:25 AM
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Subject: Re: y2k bug inherent in DateType?
Keith noted about DateTypes:
>It's clearly stored as a 7-bit value, meaning that it
>can contain anything from 0 to 127 (hmmm...unsigned?). That means it can
>represent the years from 1904 to 2031.
Which is, of course, not a Y2K bug but a Y2031 bug. For all the things
Palm engineers did right, designing an operating system in 1996 (or
thereabouts) with a 35 year life span was, IMHO, unconscionable.
Steve Patt
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