Everyday learn something new. Windows 3.11 for Workgroups does not have 2k bug but a 2019 bug. \ VOGONS

Everyday learn something new. Windows 3.11 for Workgroups does not have 2k bug but a 2019 bug.

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First post, by Cyberdyne

Posted on 2024-09-29, 00:22

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Schedule+ puts an error out, that it wil not work past 2019. What about that. Learn new quirks every day. 😵

Last edited by Cyberdyne on 2025-02-10, 20:09. Edited 1 time in total.

I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.
PS. If I upload RAR, it is a 16-bit DOS RAR Version 2.50.

Reply 1 of 4, by javispedro1

Posted on 2024-09-29, 00:36

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I hadn't realized either. Obligatory screenshot.

Apparently it was even documented by MS during Y2K craze: https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/192/Q192201/.
The 95 version works fine.

Reply 2 of 4, by ppgrainbow

Posted on 2024-09-29, 02:07

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According to the article that you linked to, this is by design unfortunately. Schedule+ 1.0 was released in 1990 about a couple of years before Windows for Workgroups 3.1x came out. As a result, Schedule+ 1.0 will not run after December 31, 2019 and is only designed to operate within a 100 year window (between 1920 to 2019).

The bug was fixed with the version of Schedule+ included in Office 95 (v7.0) which allowed the software to continue to work past December 31, 2019. Office 95 is designed to run on Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51.

Reply 3 of 4, by Cyberdyne

Posted on 2024-09-29, 09:22

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High time to strip Mail and Schedule+ from Windows for workgroups setup files and setup.inf.

Reply 4 of 4, by javispedro1

Posted on 2024-09-29, 12:23

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ppgrainbow wrote on 2024-09-29, 02:07:

According to the article that you linked to, this is by design unfortunately.

Yes, I do not think that AI has advanced enough that programs can decide on their own to print a message saying "I cannot work with dates past 2019". (/s) (sorry, could not resist 😁).

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