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From: alex@hpgnd.grenoble.hp.com (Alexis MERMET-GRANDFILLES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Setting a 2000 year date *HELP*
Message-ID: <17750005@hpgnd.grenoble.hp.com>
Date: 11 Jan 91 09:29:31 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, GND
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Hello,

Please send flames to /dev/null.

Some people has been using apple for near 10 years. Why ST or TT machines
should not still be appreciated as home computers in 9 years.

Back to our problem:
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1)

TOS 1.6 has corrected a early TOS bug that was :
Any change to the GEMDOS clock was not forwarded to the keyboard internal
clock.

This now works on my TOS 1.62 . If I call a (GEMDOS) TSetTime() , I can
retreive the value I put by calling a (BIOS) gettime().


2)

But my problem is different. Everythings works well if the date is before 2000.
If I try to set a date after the 2000 year , the GEMDOS seems to accept
the request , then it tries to forward it to the keyboard clock which seems
to refuse it. Then the GEMDOS clock is set back to the previous value it had.


Actually, If a program sets a 2000 year date with Tsettime() ,then gets the 
date with a Tgettime() call, the Tgettime() returns the correct 2000 year date!

But then, if you quits it, return to the desktop
and run a little program that read the date, you get the previous value ???

Strange isn't it.

Atari users, is it reproducable on your systems ? on the TT ?

I am wondering if this may be a side effect of any French adaptation of the
TOS.

Alexis MERMET.