Just to clarify, since the Amiga is based on a
similar epoch system to UNIX, it should be little sweat to localize to a different calendar system. You'll still be bit at the same rollover point(s), of course, but that's no sweat to patch as the need arises.
The RTC clocks may be subject to certain limitations, but it's the OS's job to set them and interpret them - when a clock with a two-digit year rolls over, for instance, it's the OS's job to realize it's in the 21st (Gregorian) century, and thus at the appropriate point in the epoch (which turns out to be little trouble to extend, since hardware scales exponentially, while seconds tick on linearly... what was once a 'huge' number is now perhaps half a word from a DIMM?, or a miniscule fraction of the average minimum disk sector).
