Re: [NTLK] Date issues, who is responsible? Some background, and why the Newton died.

I think the biggest problem with
> the 2010 fix
> is that its an extension. During boot the Newton probably
> can't
> handle the date being greater then January 5. When the fix
> is finally
> loaded, then things work themselves out. The only problem
> is the date
> is wrong (in my case July 8, 2012 at 3:00 pm) and you have
> to go and
> reset that yourself.

Quick, we need Paul Guyot to incorporate Fix2010 into a system patch!
Seriously, won't the Newtons get into an infinite loop of restarting because of the date problem caused by the uninitialized Fix2010 package? We need a flux capacitor ;)

-Matej Horvat

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