Keith noted about DateTypes:

>It's clearly stored as a 7-bit value, meaning that it
>can contain anything from 0 to 127 (hmmm...unsigned?). That means it can
>represent the years from 1904 to 2031.

Which is, of course, not a Y2K bug but a Y2031 bug. For all the things 
Palm engineers did right, designing an operating system in 1996 (or 
thereabouts) with a 35 year life span was, IMHO, unconscionable.


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