AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") (10/13/88)
>Date: Tue, 11 Oct 88 00:56:00 EDT >From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA >Subject: final(?) clue, weird one (lost date) >Before giving up tried one more thing. Very carefully set my clock back >to Aug. 31, 1988 (wouldn't it be nice to be able to to do that in >reality) and created a one line basic file in /ram5. sure enough, the >file exhibited all the properties of the one I had noticed before [...] >your serve, experts. I repeated your experiment successfully and found that the ProDOS FST under GS/OS rejects *any* date that is the 31st of *any* month! Will report this to Apple prompto-style. (By the way, 1-Jan-00 is just what an application gets trying to convert a date of $0000 (which really means "no date available") into a legible date; so some applications will show "unknown" or "no date" and some will show 1-Jan-00. The bug in this case was the ProDOS FST returning $0000 when it determined [incorrectly] that the date was not valid.) >TMPLee@dockmaster.arpa --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons