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

[Wayne Campbell]

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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