[Coco] OS-9 Level 2 and 4 digit years

[Wayne Campbell]

4-digit, not 3-digit

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:

> NitrOS-9 was modified to include 3-digit years to fix the "Y2K bug" many
> years ago. OS-9 Level 2, in  stock form, does not include this fix, and I
> am not certain the mods to the L3 code were ever adopted by the OS-9
> community.
>
> Wayne
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Barry Nelson <
> barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com> wrote:
>
>> On my NitrOS9 v 3.3.0 system date, dir -e, free, setime and login all
>> appear to support 4 digit years.
>>
>> > Jerry Cantrill jwcantrill at earthlink.net
>> > Tue Sep 29 17:34:57 EDT 2015
>> > Hi guys;
>> >
>> > I have been playing with OS-9 Level 2 on VCC, I had given up my COCOs
>> > several years ago.
>> >
>> > And was looking at what it would take to include 4 digit years into
>> > Level 2 vr 2.00, and found updated source for date,dir,free,setime and
>> > login CMDS from the old Glenside Y2K project. I thought I could just asm
>> > these to build a new boot for 4 digit years.
>> >
>> > Then I found on the coco archive vr 3.00 beta which already has 4 digit
>> > years.
>> >
>> > I wondered what the changes were from vr 2.00 to vr 3.00 beta?
>> >
>> > If there is a final version of it or if this was the last version?
>> >
>> > And, if the project was dropped, were the changes included in NitrOS-9?
>>
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Wayne

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