RE: 9401

[Carl Friedberg <friedberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Art, 1971 would be the choice, but only if you care about getting the
correct day of the week printed along with a year which is off by a mere 28.
Why not just set it to 1995 or something if you don't care about dates? It's
a leap year in 1996, as in 2000; only the day-of-week would be wrong then,
again, aside from a mere 4 year error in the year. Of course, you could try
setting the date to 1899. That would work fine on VMS, but VMS works fine on
any date after the current Smithsonian nonsense; I've used 19986 by mistake
once, and aside from a few complaints (like getting four asterisks in the
year field) the OS worked fine... I know there's an S36/S38 1928 issue
discussed a few days ago; ah the joys of the calendar. Bring back Pope
Gregory; or was it Hail Julius Caesar? Best wishes for 0/0/00

Just a thought, my 1.5 cents. Carl@comets.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Art Baker [mailto:Art_Baker@baan.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 10:42 AM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: 9401


Top of the Morning,
        I would like to make a 9401-P01 machine ready for Y2K. It is not
supported by IBM anymore and is not used enough to justify an upgrade.
Actually it's been sitting in the closet for the last two years, it was used
by the sales department for demo.
        I through I'd set the system date back to 1973 or would 1949 be
better? 
Thanks,
Art
 
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