29 Dec
2020
29 Dec
'20
5:15 a.m.
I think the best fix here is to change the base date to for
example 2020 on systems we knew how to do this on.
It will send a happy positive number to everyone and some will think
it's in the past and some will get it right.
(Johnny already said this..)
-P
----- Original Message -----
From: "tommytimesharing"
<tommytimesharing at gmail.com>
To: "hecnet" <hecnet at Update.UU.SE>
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2020 11:06:24 PM
Subject: Re: [HECnet] DECnet-10 doesn't work past Nov 9 2021?
I did some date arithmetic; there are 16,383 days
between 1/1/1977 and
11/9/2021.
Since Tops-10 is calculating by half days, that's why I clamp it to the
unsigned octal value of 177777 (3FFF hex).
Would a later version of NICE have expanded this to four bytes? That
seems like the thing to do.