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

Eckhart,

Are you telling me that it is only the alarms that are affected?

So, if I don't set any alarms, there will not be a clock problem at
all? Whether or not I apply your patch?

Doug

On 13-Jun-09, at 4:52 PM, Eckhart Koppen wrote:

> On Jun 13, 2009, at 23:43 , Doug Denby wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> The full background is explained here:
>
> http://40hz.org/Pages/Newton%20Year%202010%20Problem
>
> The main problem is the functionality which deals with alarms, the
> "clock" which is used to trigger alarms has an overflow in year 2010,
> which causes alarms to go off in the past in a never ending cycle. The
> rest of the OS handles dates just fine.
>
> Eckhart
>
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