18 Jan
2015
18 Jan
'15
7:30 p.m.
Believe is you use 1972, that is the folding point for the calendar to get
weeks and months correct.
Older versions of RSTS did not do it past about mid 2000.
John>
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:
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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