In article <20000129231502.22407.00000302@ng-cv1.aol.com>, TEXAS II - AppleWorks wrote: >> Since 1991, ProDOS dates have been well defined, and they cover 1940 to 2039. > >Unfortunately, most Apple II software was written before 1991, and was never >changed to comply with the new rules. Even those written later didn't get the >message. Did you think that all pre-1991 programs would somehow get updated? Nope, we were sure that most software would NOT be updated, and we judged that there was much more software which -displayed- dates than software that -compared- dates, and that the majority of date-display routines did not work past 99 (showing things like "1-Jan-100" or "1-Jan-:0"). We did believe that developrs who were still active would read the technotes. There weren't that many of them. >I have never seen a directory listing of files which differentiated between >pre-40 and post-40 years. "Make it so." It's not too late to revise or patch whatever needs it. I've done the coding and testing for Davex 1.3, but haven't done the release notes & the upload yet. (In Davex, it's not just the [optionally] sorted directory listings that are affected, it's also the "modchk" and update commands.) >...but nobody, except possibly GS/OS apps, implemented the 39/40 >instruction in a directory listing of files. For GS/OS apps, there is no significance to 39/40...it's the FST's job to interpret the year on disk, and return the date in the parameter block, where they are defined as 0..255 = 1900 to 2155. There is still an opportunity to display the date wrong. -- Dave Lyons Mr Tangent