Amigactive (4/1279)

From:Andrew Bell
Date:2 Jan 2000 at 20:55:55
Subject:Re: Amiga is not y2k compliant

From: Andrew Bell <andrew.ab2000@bigfoot.com>

Hi Richard,

On 02-Jan-00 you wrote: [amigactive] Re: Amiga is not y2k compliant

> With files having datestamp (2-Jan-00 19:40) a listing of the
> archive shows these as 02-Jan-128. However, the files when unpacked
> have their datestamp set to the time that they where unpacked.
>
> I wonder how many other old programs we'll discover over the coming
> weeks thst are not Y2K complient?

Older versions of MicroDot (NC version 1) print "100" instead of "00"
and Hisoft C++ has similar problems with the strftime() ANSI
function. LHA 2.1 prints "100" instead of "00" at the very bottom of a
verbose listing.

Regards, Andrew Bell.



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