Date   : Fri, 08 Jan 1999 01:07:33 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: [BBC Micro] Real Time Clock

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> All my programs check the date, and specifically, they do: 'read date,
> if year-within-century > 80 then use century 19, else use century 20'.
 
James Gibbon wrote:
> You're saving up trouble for yourself here.. sounds like you're in for a
> major rewrite effort in the late 2070s.
 
Well as I fully intend to see in the 22nd century I see I shall have to
spend my 90s updating my software.
 
Although, as a responsible programer, I hope I'd have done it before
then... ;)
 
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