The only date sensitive issues on the Pictor 416 software would be the
time set for your image library information. No big deal except for your
own personal reference on when the exposures were taken.

john
Willard Observatory
(Not far from Mt. Palomar)
http://members.aol.com/rlecker/

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 15:50:54 -0700 "EDWARD REGISTRATO"
>Hi Everyone...
>
>I have been out with the flu for about two weeks now. While I was
>sick, a
>friend of mine gave me a software package that checks for Y2K
>compliance. I
>ran it on the computer that runs my pictor software for my 416XT.
>Test said
>the computer would not automatically roll over to 1/1/2000 BUT...
>date
>could be manually set. Leap years tested fine beyond 2000. Then it
>went on
>to say:
>
>DO NOT RELY ON THIS COMPUTER TO RUN DATE SENSITIVE PROGRAMS
>
>My question now is how DATE SENSITIVE is Pictor 6.5?
>
>I do use it to center objects, and GOTO objects while the 416 is on
>the
>telescope.
>
>ED REGISTRATO
>
>
>
>
>

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