RE: 9401

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What we really need to do is change the earth's orbit.

All we have to do is make the year an even multiple of the day length.  I'd
vote for 256 days, myself.  We'd all live longer and pay taxes more often.

(I know, making it work right would require a pretty darned good solution
for the n body problem, but look where the present approach has gotten us.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Friedberg [mailto:friedberg@exs.esb.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 9:49 AM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: 9401
> 
> 
> 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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