- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:01:33 -0800
- To: "Walter Ian Kaye" <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Cc: "Style" <www-style@w3.org>, "HTML" <www-html@w3.org>
Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > Man, I'm glad I use a Mac -- I've yet to hear of any date problems under MacOS. I knew when I posted that message that it would draw a 'Mac is Good' comment, and from whom. :) Conclusions over the last few days: In UNIX and MacOS, C runtime libraries use the same size datetime value as the opsys (in MacOS an unsigned 32-bit value from 1904 - 2040). In DOS/Win, valid dates range from 1980 to 2099, but the C compilers use the UNIX datetime from 1970 - 2038 for library routines (why?). No excuse for apps to crash when the opsys is set beyond a specific date -- there are other ways to access system datetime -- but it does make it simpler for developers to screw up. David Perrell
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