Year 2000 and MP3 Patches
The Year 2000 caused a lot of grief in the Computer world and Commodore GEOS users did not escape this. The problems arose because computer systems and programs relied on only 2 digits to represent the year instead of using all 4 digits (59 to represent 1959). This is all well and good, of course, until the century changes.
For GEOS users the main victims of this were programs that used the word DATE as a placeholder that would substitute the current date (including the 19 for the century) when the document was printed out. These included GeoWrite, GeoPublish, geoLaser, geoPubLaser and geoMerge.
The other program that was affected by the change to the year 2000 was the Calendar. While the Calendar would properly display dates into the 21st Century it would default to opening in the 20th Century and use of the “To Present” option would go to the 20th Century as well.
To the best of my knowledge there were two people who created fixes for these Date issues. Also included here are patches that were written to allow regular GEOS Apps to work properly underthe MegaPatch3 system.
Werner Weicht – for GEOS Application Y2K patches and MegaPatch3 updates
Bruce Thomas – for Calendar Y2K patches