[NTLK] [ANN] Patch 71J059 - Year 2010 Fix

[Woo]

My experience has been, in all my MP2100's and eMates, the 2010 dates bug made all my Newts apps unusable.  
My business' usage on the Newts is time and dated based, so he has saved my business considerable time, money, effort, and retraining expenses.  However the iPad might be able to replace the eMates.  :-O

Eckhart Köppen's 'Year 2010 Fix' has allowed the 'internal Newton clock' to reset/restart/reboot into a usable form and allowed for easier resetting of the date. i.e. moving the date from 1/1/2008 instead of 1990's to 2010.
Considering he's done this WITHOUT Apple's support, it's an amazing and usable fix.

I just hope Eckhart can update the patch soon, or at least every 4 yrs. :P
...which reminds, since I've done well with aapl stock, time to help out at least one of the non-apple developers again.  Since Paul Guyot is not around much...Hi Eckhart! :D

-----Original Message-----
>From: James Wages <james at kiramek.com>
>Sent: Jan 31, 2010 4:08 AM
>To: newtontalk at newtontalk.net
>Subject: Re: [NTLK] [ANN] Patch 71J059 - Year 2010 Fix
>
>I posted a detailed report to this list in Dec. 2009 about how I
>successfully applied the Y2010 patch to my Newton:
>
>http://lists.newtontalk.net/pipermail/newtontalk/2009-December/000552.html
>
>After patching I tested it (that was then 2009) and upon reset I was pleased
>to find that my Date/Time were still intact.
>
>Today was the first time I restarted my Newton since then.  I was shocked to
>see my Newton report Jan. 1, 2008 at 9:00PM upon reboot!  Today is January
>31, 2010 (and I did it at 10:25AM).  So clearly this patch is not doing its
>job after all.  It is doing something though, obviously, since the date
>doesn't get set back to the mid-1990s like before.  But still, when I
>restart my Newton, I expect that my date and time will be maintained, and I
>had high hopes that the new patch would do that.
>
>I restarted several times, and my date/time always gets reset to Jan. 1,
>2008 at 9:00PM.
>
>I searched the patch page and I see this is in fact a bug mentioned toward
>the bottom:
>http://40hz.org/Pages/Patch%2071J059
>
>What a miserable bug this is too.  I was so overjoyed this past December
>that the patch had eliminated that headache for me, and now I am back to
>square one.  
>
>Since the bug hasn't been fixed yet, I am going to assume it never will be.
>In such a case, is this bug going to plague me all this year and then vanish
>from next year?  If so, I have something to look forward to.  If no, then I
>need to reach for my blood pressure medication again.
>
>--James Wages
>
>
>
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