Subject: Re: Year 2000 Test Results
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From: jdd@efn.org (John David Duncan)
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Date: 13 Nov 1997 05:55:04 GMT
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Apple addressed the Year 2000 issue in September, 1990, when Dave Lyons 
wrote ProDOS Technote 28.
(see http://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/apple2/Technotes/Tn/pdos/TN.PDOS.028 )

In effect, this says to ProDOS 8 application developers, "Prodos years 00 
through 39 are supposed to refer to 2000 through 2039.  Make sure your 
application treats them that way."

The ProDOS FST in GS/OS is compliant with this.  Presumably, so is Davex :)
And I've projected spreadsheet calculations beyond year 2000 in Appleworks 
5.1 with no problem.  

But many prodos 8 applications haven't been revised since 1991, so they 
aren't very likely to comply with the technote.

(Sorry if this posting appears in the newsgroup twice.  I think the first 
copy got lost...)