Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/27

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Subject: [Leica] Y2K fix for older equipment
From: "Robert Rose" <rjr@usip.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:30:20 -0700
 
For those of you who have older date backs or equipment that won't accept 2000 dates, here is a work around that I found out about.

The year 1972 has the same calendar as the year 2000 (including the leap day February 29).

So, say you would like your equipment to report the right weekday and date (e.g., March 1 as a Wednesday).  Simply set the year right now to 1971, and everything will be fine for the next 29 years.

:-)
Bob Rose