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Originally posted by Terra
Actually, Zero One, 8-bit Commodores didn't track the date at all  The C64 did have a time-of-day function (ti$ in BASIC) which defaulted to midnight on every startup, and it was possible to access a couple of hardware timers.
GEOS, an OS for the C64 and C128, did track the date, but since the computers had no CMOS battery, it would default to sometime in 1986 with every startup.
Sure? Because my dad told me that the C64 date didn't reset. I've also never heard of it resetting to 1986 
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Zero One
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As we call the ones we left below,
We all dream of the day we rise above
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Ah. Looks like my dad was wrong again. Again. Again. Again... ad infinitum.
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| | Metal_Man88's Post | Originally posted by Schala
Yea, I remember the Amigas and Macs would transition to 2000 just fine... but older IBM and Unix machines would say "1900", "19100" or even "19:0" (believe it or not, Microsoft actually patched Windows 3.1 to display the date correctly... probably the last update before it went EOL.)
It's ridiculous how people were going crazy over Y2K... now, 2038 is something we have to worry more about, since it's more likely to cause stuff to crash. Embedded systems, NASA satellites, and even some governments might have problems in another 27.5 years from now...
Timestamps used by a number of things will also go bad, including some this very board uses. 
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