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[Philip Webb]

000105 Juan-Carlos Lerman wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
>> In a recent note, Philip Webb said:
>>> Aristotle, my little XT, however, even knows 2000 is a leap year
>> I wonder if that's because it's aware of the 400-year rule
>> or oblivious to the 100-year rule.
>> What does it say about 1900 and 2100?  :-)
> Win95 (OEM version for IBM) both the GUI and the MS-DOS window
> don't recognize as valid dates higher than 12-31-2099.
> I'll have to do all my online shopping
> before the Y2099 bug crashes all MS/IBM based e-commerece  ;-)

Aristotle, using DOS 3.2 with 3.3 country info for Quebec,
recognises only dates 1980-1-1 to 2099-12-31 inclusive;
he translates eg `99' to `1999', but requires `2000' in full.
hopefully before 2100, i'll be able to afford to update my hardware (smile).

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