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- From: tw116@cus.cam.ac.uk (T. Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Leap year probs with PROTEXT
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 10:36:54 GMT
- Organization: University of Cambridge, England
- Message-ID: <4jb5o6$hj0@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
- References: <9603240757.AA001gn@giverin.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <9603240757.AA001gn@giverin.demon.co.uk>,
- Paul Giverin <paul@giverin.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >I've been using Protext V5.0 for some time now and wouldn't change it for
- >anything but it does have one annoying problem. It can't cope with Leap
- >Years.
- >
- >After 29th Feb on a Leap year, the insert date feature inserts tomorrow's
- >date i.e. the correct date +1 day.
- >
- >The last time this happened (four years ago, oddly enough ;) I did not own a
- >Hard Drive and ran Protext from floppies. ISTR that I got round the problem
- >by inserting the Dos command "Date Yesterday" into the Protext
- >startup-sequence but if I do that now on my Sys:s/startup-sequence, it will
- >throw the date out on all my other applications.
- >
- >Any ideas please.
- >
- >--
- >Paul Giverin
-
- I remember this problem occurring in a magazine about 4 years ago -
- apparently this was a bug in Protext (in a version 5). It required an
- update (a free one from Arnor, who unfortunately seem to have stopped
- trading now).
-
- Trevor
-
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