Msg: 775 *Conference*
11-03-91 00:29:37
From: RICHARD HANSON
To : TRACY ALLEN
Subj: HOW ABOUT A DATE?
Tracy: I've been playing with simple little BASIC things for our novice users (see Newsletter: LapTopTip's). I wrote a simple one line program to reset the year part of the date, for use by those using TELCOM--you'll remember that TELCOM sets the year in the date back one year each time you use TELCOM. Actually, I borrowed the code when no one was looking. 1 DATE$=LEFT$(DATE$,6)+"91":MENU It's a simple little diddy but it got me thinking about the Model 100 in the year 2000. As you know, due to a bug in the system ROM, the date can not be set to the year 2000; 1999 yes, but not 2000. I was just wondering where the four byte year was stored in RAM and whether a PEEK routine could be used to set it to 2000 and beyond. And, if the date can be set to 2000, then what will happen when the year changes to 2001? I'm throwing this out to you since you've probably already played in this area before. I'm sure others may want to jump into this discussion as well. Thanks... -Rick-