Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Roger.Sheppard
From: Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Setting a 2000 year date *HELP*
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.040901.785@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 10 Jan 91 04:09:01 GMT
References: <17750004@hpgnd.grenoble.hp.com>
Sender: Roger.Sheppard@actrix.gen.nz (Roger Sheppard)
Organization: Actrix Networks
Lines: 38

<1991Jan09.012718.16813@convex.com>
Sender: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution:world
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange, Wellington, New Zealand
Keywords: 
Comment-To: rosenkra@convex.com
 
In article <1991Jan09.012718.16813@convex.com> rosenkra@convex.com
(William Rosencranz) writes:
> 
> ---
> stupid question: why is setting the date in the next millenium of any
> importance now? do u really expect to be using TOS 10 years from now?
> i don't even think much of the software available now will even be
> around in 10 years, including TOS. 10 years from now u will be using
> a 64-bit/64MB/50Mhz/unix(?) system that'll cost u $500 in 1990
dollars...
> 
> maybe u should explain what u are doing. there may be a better
solution.
> 
> -bill
> rosenkra@convex.com
> 
> --
> Bill Rosenkranz            |UUCP:
{uunet,texsun}!convex!c1yankee!rosenkra
> Convex Computer Corp.      |ARPA: rosenkra%c1yankee@convex.com
 
Some people like to think that there machines will last forever, there
are some funny things with the Date Commands, that is why there are a
lot of Date setting programs, by the way you seem to be of the same
opinion, will Unix last that long, I thought it was allready dead !!
by the way I vote for ZIP, :-)
 
-- 
Roger W. Sheppard   85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand...