Is a CD-i player Y2K proof?
Yes. CD-i is based on the OS-9 operating system, which is very Unix like. It therefore does not suffer from Windows or DOS-style year 2000 problems. Since Unix stores a year in a 7 bit field which starts counting at the year 1900, the first problems (if some) will arise in 2027 (so then we have a Y2.027K problem :-). A CD-i player continues to count onwards from the beginning of 2000, but it needs to be switched off and on at least one time in the new millenium for the player to perform the necessary calculations at system startup. When displaying a post-2000 date from a file correctly, some calculations need to be made by the application (in most cases, this involves only adding a 100 to the results produced by the system). It is however very rare that an application displays file creation dates, and the Memory and Storage options in the CD-i player’s startup shell have already taken care of this problem. The only problem-causing exception might be CD-i players equiped with a floppy d
