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

[James Wages]

I posted a detailed report to this list in Dec. 2009 about how I
successfully applied the Y2010 patch to my Newton:

http://lists.newtontalk.net/pipermail/newtontalk/2009-December/000552.html

After patching I tested it (that was then 2009) and upon reset I was pleased
to find that my Date/Time were still intact.

Today was the first time I restarted my Newton since then.  I was shocked to
see my Newton report Jan. 1, 2008 at 9:00PM upon reboot!  Today is January
31, 2010 (and I did it at 10:25AM).  So clearly this patch is not doing its
job after all.  It is doing something though, obviously, since the date
doesn't get set back to the mid-1990s like before.  But still, when I
restart my Newton, I expect that my date and time will be maintained, and I
had high hopes that the new patch would do that.

I restarted several times, and my date/time always gets reset to Jan. 1,
2008 at 9:00PM.

I searched the patch page and I see this is in fact a bug mentioned toward
the bottom:
http://40hz.org/Pages/Patch%2071J059

What a miserable bug this is too.  I was so overjoyed this past December
that the patch had eliminated that headache for me, and now I am back to
square one.  

Since the bug hasn't been fixed yet, I am going to assume it never will be.
In such a case, is this bug going to plague me all this year and then vanish
from next year?  If so, I have something to look forward to.  If no, then I
need to reach for my blood pressure medication again.

--James Wages