[Coco] OS9 Getclock

[Dave Kelly]

KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 7/16/04 9:26:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>jadonaldson at charter.net writes:
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>>  Does anyone have a current copy of  "getclock". The one I have returns 
>> the correct date and time
>> except it displays 1904 instead of 2004. The date and month are correct. 
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>Isn't this just par for the course on old OS9 versions?
>It is on the MM/1 OSK, or OS9/68K version 2.4.  I just put up with the 
>century-old year.  It does cause the day of the week to be off by one, though.
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>When you read such OS9 floppies into a PC, the date will be 28 years into the 
>future!
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>Back to the Coco -- I don't know if the battery is still running my B&B RTC, 
>which is built into my hard drive interface, and *did* keep everything 
>correctly until Y2K.
>--Mike K.
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Wasn't the solution to patch the 'date' module.
Use a hex editor and search for ?? (whatever the hex value for ? is). 
The two bites before '??'
is 19, change it to 20.

Then insert the 'date' module back into you boot module.