Re: [NTLK] 2010.....should I be worried?

From: Doug Denby <ddenby_at_rogers.com>
Date: Tue Mar 04 2008 - 19:50:45 EST

On Mar 4, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Dan wrote:

> Hmm I could be wrong but if you don't use the calendar and don't have
> any items posted on it, it shouldn't be a issue. Especially if you
> never set the current date (it has no way to know therefore no way of
> running into this bug).
>
> -Dan
>

How about the dates used to keep the notes. There are two there:
created and modified. SuperNotepad allows you to alter the created
date to reorder the notes. I suspect that the applications and OS use
dates in several other places to identify items. What happens there?

Doug

> On 3/4/2008 7:13 PM, Kate Case wrote:
>> This is probably a dumb question so forgive me - but if I don't use
>> any calendar based software -which I don't -and my Newton is happily
>> telling me that it is 1996 -which it is - will the 2010 bug still
>> effect my newton. ie is there another internal clock that will crash
>> the system at 2010?
>>
>> Kate
>
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