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Amiga's 22nd Century Bug!

Forget the millenium bug - we all know that the Amiga has nothing to fear from such trivial problems. But a hundred years later, things could be different.

As the clock ticks from 31st December 2099 to 1st January 2100, at first things seem okay: No smoke fanning out of the floppy drive, no spontaneously exploding CPUs, and the clock ticks happily onwards.

But what's this? The Time Preferences program won't have it! When you run it, it will display the year 2100 or whatever, but as soon as you enter a new date in, it won't let you enter 2100 or beyond. If you do, it just changes it to 2099!

So while Amigas may tick onto the 22nd Century, don't even think about running that Time prefs program.

I hope Amiga International give us an OS update before 2100...


This article was written by someone who really should have better things to do than fiddle with the Time setting on his Amiga, and then write up his findings...