19 Jan
2015
19 Jan
'15
1:07 a.m.
On 2015-01-19 02:04, Mark Longridge wrote:
After trying to get Unix v5 to understand dates beyond
the year 2000 I
had to wonder if any of the older operating systems from the 1970s or
older could do this.
So, did any operating system programmers from this time period have
the foresight to use 4 digits for the year? I just checked APL/360 and
it seems that it does not.
TOPS-20? VMS?
Actually RSX internally also handles it fine, but there were bugs in
various code that displayed dates, that assumed that the year would
never go beyond 99. :-)
Johnny
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