The 2020 Experience

[Dog Cow]

Post here if your Mac thought it was 1920 instead of 2020.

My Mac 512K with System 2.0/Finder 4.1 recognizes that it's 2020, but my SE/30 with 7.5.3 thinks it's 1920.

 

[quorten]

My Macintosh SE with System 6.0.7 correctly recognizes the year as 2020.

Interesting that the newer system software has that defect, you'd think it would be the reverse. 

 

[Cory5412]

The Control Panels were all rewritten (or at least split out) for system 7 or 7.5 so it's not entirely surprising that bugs exist in system 7/8/9 control panels but not 6 ones (and the reverse.)

 

[Scott Baret]

From my own experiences:

System 6 goes to 1920.

System 7 goes to 1920.

I don't have anything with OS 8 up right now (anyone want to recap my PowerBook 190?)

OS 9 does work.

The SetDate control panel is a good option for going into 2020 and beyond. I ran it on a 7.1 LC and a 6.0.8 SE and both were able to set 2020.