#Preferences Date
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Has anyone else had this problem:
I have an A-TIME clock which I read on boot-up with read-rtc in my
startup-sequence. During startup, I print the date with the date command and it
prints today's date (31-Jan-87) and the current time. If I bring up a CLI and
give the date command I get the correct date & time, however, if I bring up
preferences, it shows today's date as 03-Feb-87! Also, if I change the
preferences date and save the settings, when I call up preferences again I
still get 03-Feb-87!!! If I save the corrected preferences settings and reboot,
CLI has the correct date (as before) and preferences still says 03-Feb-87.
Also my Aterm Clock gives the correct time, but shows the date as ??? 31, 1987.
Does anyone know what's wrong and how to correct it?
Claude 75305,771
Claude,
I don't know why your Preferences screen shows the wrong date, but the
problem with AtermClock was noticed on Jan 1. I uploaded a corrected version of
the clock to DL 4 on the same day.
If you decide to download AtermClock, you might want to download Aterm 7.3,
which is also in DL 4. It has a phone list for dialing.
Regards, Larry.
Thanks, Larry.
Preferences is correct today – I don't understand what happened, but it's back
to normal. I'll download both Aterm 7.3 and the clock. This Aterm is the best
of the terminal programs I have. I'm glad to see that it's actively used and
updated. I have Amiga Term from Commodore also, and that one really could use
updating. It amazes me to see a PD program like Aterm kept up to date while a
commercial program like Amiga Term is not. Thanks for a fine program!
Claude
Claude,
To be fair, commercial programs simply cannot be updated as often as freely
distributable ones. The software houses face a completely different set of
conditions.
They must be concerned with distribution of updates, which cost money. Even
if they charge for updates, it still requires a substantial cash investment up
front. A freely distributable program, on the other hand has no cash
involvement beyond the cost of uploading. In addition, a company must decide
when to upgrade, balancing new features against the demand for them. If a
company updates too soon, with only minor improvements, the buyers will not
take kindly to it, feeling that they need to buy the update or be left behind,
and feeling that the company has just found a new way to charge high prices for
their software.
I'm glad you are enjoying Aterm.
Regards, Larry.
Claude, keep in mind that it's alot easier to fix and re-upload a public domain
pgm then to fix, repackage, redistribute etc. a commercial program.
However I must say that the PD stuff for the Amiga is exceptional.
Marlene