> Marketing reasons. The original Pilot design had to be competetive with
> comparable products of the time. Those products could store tons of data
> in a small amount of space. The Pilot had to be able to make the same
> claims. Thus, date information was packed into a two-byte field: 5 bits
> for the day, 4 for the month, and 7 for the year == 16 bits.
as per my previous post..
> The mistake was probably exposing this packing in the API.
not really - the programmer should be aware of this problem.
> (Another mistake was storing the date as day/month/year, when simply
> storing "number of days since 1904" as a 16-bit field would have yielded a
> range of 179 years.)
i still believe it was to synchronize with the UNIX date system
failure..
i guess as soon as they figure something out regarding UNIX, they
will replicate it with the Palm?
az.
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