I would like to ask your opinion on this little language glitch that I've noticed in OSX.
Was just playing around in SysPref, bored, when I came accross something.
In System Preferences->International->Formats I set the region to Romania, after clicking the 'Show all' checkbox. Then when I clicked on 'Customize' (right above the calendar selection box), the era is displayed as î.d.Cr. That, translated, means BC in English, actually. So, is the system time actually set to the year 2007 BC?
I don't know, could this possibly make things bad, or is this harmless? I mean, having the computer think it's running during the Egyptian 10th dynasty is a little weird 🙂.
Oh, and I'm using 10.4.9 on an iBook G4 and have my system time synced to the Apple Euro Server. Always have. And I've just sent feedback to Apple regarding this. Who knows, maybe they'll issue a public patch and then I'll know I contributed to the developemt of Mac OS X 🙂
Was just playing around in SysPref, bored, when I came accross something.
In System Preferences->International->Formats I set the region to Romania, after clicking the 'Show all' checkbox. Then when I clicked on 'Customize' (right above the calendar selection box), the era is displayed as î.d.Cr. That, translated, means BC in English, actually. So, is the system time actually set to the year 2007 BC?
I don't know, could this possibly make things bad, or is this harmless? I mean, having the computer think it's running during the Egyptian 10th dynasty is a little weird 🙂.
Oh, and I'm using 10.4.9 on an iBook G4 and have my system time synced to the Apple Euro Server. Always have. And I've just sent feedback to Apple regarding this. Who knows, maybe they'll issue a public patch and then I'll know I contributed to the developemt of Mac OS X 🙂
