[Coco] Y2K fixes ever developed or posted?

[Dave Kelly]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Theodore (Alex) Evans" <alxevans at concentric.net>
> > Microware did not fix the Y2K problem in OS9 until version 3.1 or 3.2.
>
> In reality, the OS itself doesn't have a problem with y2k, though most
> utilities which use the date do.  OS9 uses a single byte for the year
> with the epoch being 1900, the year 2003 being represented by the value
> 103 or 0x67.  Unfortunately the date command only accepts two digit
> decimal dates.  Some commands will end up printing the year as 103,
> some as 67, and some as 19103.  On top of that the support for many
> clock chips do have y2k problems.
What was told to me:
Microware installed another routine that check the 2 digit year and if it
was less than 70, printed the date as 20??.