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See a possible Y2K bug in shutdown
Authored by: ctparker333 on Sep 03, '03 01:14:14AM

The problem is that, using 10.2, if you try to use the shutdown command to shut down computer in the future, and you use the full time code (10 digits), the first 2 digits are read as the year. However if you set the first two digits as 03, the output has the year as 1903, not 2003. The trick is to only use 8 digits, then the computer uses to the current year.

I haven't played with 10.3 yet so I don't know what is different.



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