[Coco] Back to os9level 2

Alex Evans varmfskii at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 17:23:17 EDT 2020


Oh, and many RTC drivers don't work properly. When crossing from 99 to
100, you may go to 00 so.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 5:22 PM Alex Evans <varmfskii at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Back when everyone was really concerned with Y2K, I did a test with
> setting the time to 99/12/31 23:59:00 and waiting. Not much of a test,
> but shortly we ended up at Jan, 1, 19100 :-) for the displayed time.
> What I do not recall is if the clock thinks 28 Feb 2000 is followed by
> 29 Feb or 1 Mar (does it handle leap year properly for the year 100).
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:26 PM phil pt <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was just going to test it using the Burk & Burk zclock to see if it wors.
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> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 2:51 PM Alex Evans <varmfskii at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > It isn't the actual clock that needs patching. The clock stores the
> > > year as a full it 8-bit value for the years since 1900. It is the
> > > utilities that use the clock that had to be patched.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 2:29 PM phil pt <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Is there any patch to the clock on the old os9 level 2 so the date would
> > > > work as yyyy/mm/dd Hr:mm:ss?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
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