4 Jan
1999
4 Jan
'99
2:51 p.m.
This is exactly the stuff I refer to. Whay would an
elevator care what
year it is? Some do days of the week but their clock is not date but
_day_ so that say on sunday you need a pass key to get in a building that
would be open during the week. That as far as they go, very
minimalistic.
It may only care about date, but depending on how the application
was written, it may calculate the day of week based on the *date*,
or it could simply count days 1-7 (rinse) and repeat.
If the latter, no problem... if the former, then the programming
will drift over the years, only getting it right again 28 years
later...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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