Re: NTLK Y2K Newton OS 2.0 "Dates" Bug ? ! ? !

From: Victor Rehorst (victor@gear.torque.net)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2000 - 13:50:26 EST


On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, DrNewton wrote:

> I ran into a problem setting up Dates on a 130 and believe it's an
> unreported / undocumented Y2K bug in the Newton 2.0 OS.
>
> Here is what I did to cause it:
>
<snip>

sort of a summary:

It sort of looks like 2.0 is fine for Y2K *if* it experiences the
1999->2000 date change, but if you start it up clean in 2000, dates aren't
set properly.

This won't be the first time Apple ignored a bug (cough-10061cough)

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