15 Jul
2012
15 Jul
'12
1:41 p.m.
In article <50029B68.7030209 at compsys.to>,
"Jerome H. Fine" <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> writes:
OS/8 does not report current time and ^H on OS/8 always returns zero.
The other environments report current date and time, but in a format
that is different from my test environment.
If others are
willing to try this on their TECOs and tell me the
results, that would be great. The environments that are different
from my test environment are:
PDP-8, OS/8 Different date, time encoding
PDP-11, RT-11 Different date encoding
PDP-11, RSTS/E Different date, time encoding
TOPS-10 Different date, time encoding
TOPS-20 Different date, time encoding
<http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/vintage/http-date.zip>
Please verify my understanding:
Can all of the listed operating systems respond with the date AND time
except
for RT-11 which responds with only the date? From another post within this thread, I thought that
OS/8 is unable to keep
track of the time.
Correct. I use 12 noon for the time, since it isn't available.
Obviously, RT-11 keeps track of the time, but TECO
for
RT-11 does not have the ability (that I am aware of) to tell the TECO user
what the time is.
^H returns the time.
Since I don't have any TECO manuals for any
operating system except
RT-11, what command does the user send to TECO and what is the
response when the time is requested?
It's always the same command across all environments: ^B returns
encoded date as an integer and ^H returns the encoded time as an
integer.
What's different is how those integer values encode the date and time
as per the table above.
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