[Coco] Y2K fixes ever developed or posted?

[Theodore Evans (Alex)]

On Dec 14, 2003, at 2:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Unforch, the architects of OS9 did not leave room in that 6 byte field
> that contained the hex version of the date/time for a carry bit, or a
> century byte.  So we had, at least for os9-6809, to cobble up
> something that would work until the coco (and all its friends) was
> well and truely dead.  OTOH, there was no reason the year field  byte
> couldn't contain a value above $63, so we used that in most of our
> fixes.  Those are good till 2079 in my fixes, by which time I'll
> probably be in the ground for 70 years or so (if I'm lucky that is)
> After that, well,,, shrug.

That six byte field for the date is good until *2155* without any 
changes, or 2027 if you insist on looking at it as a signed value.