| ??? 05/26/11 08:49 Read: times |
#182405 - Very many break years in circulation for 2-digit years Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Andy Neil said:
Michael Karas said:
despite what we all went through in the Y2K transition we still have RTC chips that support year counting from 00 to 99. I don't think it's just RTC chips - I think there are major software systems that were just "patched" to treat any 2-digit year 00-49 as 20xx, and 50-99 19xx (or whatever). Which, obviously, means that they did not fix the problem at all - just postponed it fo 50 years... There are lots of systems, that have lots of varying break points. Lots of systems thinks that the 1980 start time for MS-DOS calendar is a good breakpoint, so they span 1980..2079. Applications released 1995 may have 1995..2094 etc. Because of the large number of workarounds (both for the storage of dates but nowadays most for the input of dates in short format) it's important to make specific tests with the specific products. |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| DS1307 initialization | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It's simple, really | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Simple really | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What I Do With RTC | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Sanity check | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ARGH>>> You must assign a subject to your message, please... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Indeed. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Broken Time Representations | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Very many break years in circulation for 2-digit years | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| occasionally the government ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Nice strategy! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Write Date Values Once! | 01/01/70 00:00 |