Re: [NTLK] [ANN] Patch 71J059 - Year 2010 Fix

From: Doug Denby <ddenby_at_rogers.com>
Date: Sat Jun 13 2009 - 16:43:27 EDT

Eckhart, I can see that you did see my problem and appear to have done
some testing.

Your note implies that the 2010 bug is only affects alarms. Have I
misunderstood? I thought it affected any dates anywhere in the OS2
system after 2010, January something or other.

Doug

On 12-Jun-09, at 4:48 PM, Eckhart Koppen wrote:

> On Jun 8, 2009, at 01:58 , Doug Denby wrote:
>
>> Having heard no reply to my queries about the ability of patch 71J059
>> to handle past dates, I am assuming that either it has not been
>> tested, or the tests have failed and perhaps the intrepid Eckhart is
>> working on it. In either case, I have to have patience.
>
> I just tried this by creating a note with the creation date somewere
> in 1904, and experienced no problems. The 2010 bug affects only short
> term alarms (using seconds as the base), the rest of the system is not
> affected.
>
>> What makes my situation a little less tenable is the fact that when
>> notes are transferred to a desktop, with any of the tools I have
>> tried, the creation and modification dates are lost.
>
> The RDCL would be a basis for anything more advanced in that
> direction:
>
> http://rdcl.sourceforge.net/
>
> Eckhart
>
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