[Coco] Back to os9level 2

[Rick Ulland]

Important to note the time display is not the clock. The actual clock 
uses a one byte value for year,and the OS9 system read and set calls 
F$STime and F$Time deal with the correct number. Hardware clocks all? 
worked by setting the software clock using the (good) OS9 system calls, 
if the drive did the year as math, things might just work. I remember my 
Dallas RTC kept going and I was not running Nitros9.

Two big bugs in 2.0.1:

The 'date' command should display (1900 + clock year), but it doesn't do 
the math, it prints a fixed string "19" then the clock year. Data is 
fine, but looks weird.

The 'setime' utility ignores the problem by only accepting 2 digits for 
a 1 byte value. If you don't have a hardware clock, no way to set the year.


If these two utility programs were tweaked, you would be good until 
2154. This must have been done by somebody. I'll poke around here.


-ricku
CoNect



On 4/28/20 8:22 AM, phil pt wrote:
> 'The correct format is yyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
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> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:58 AM Alex Evans <varmfskii at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm not sure what you want to patch the clock to do. The way I see it
>> is that you can wither leave the clock alone and patch the utilities
>> that misinterpret the system time, or patch the utilities that
>> misinterpret the system time. Now, the matter is different when you
>> start talking about dealing with modules that support hardware RTCs.
>> Look at it this way, the current clock module (60Hz, but I assume 50Hz
>> is the same) will roll over from 99-12-31 to 100-01-01 and would store
>> the current year as 120 (the epoch is 1900). What do you think the
>> system should store the current year as, and how do you intend to
>> manage this by only patching the clock module?
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:57 PM phil pt <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think the best way to resolve this issue is to patch the clock on the
>> old
>>> Os9 Level 2 and use that. This way I do not have to make several hundred
>>> lines of changes in the code.
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>>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:34 PM Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Well to tell the truth the only place that exists nowadays is in the
>>>> original code.  Over time Clock got split between to modules. First
>> being
>>>> the base, then the second became hardware specific for each type.  I’ve
>>>> been getting it put back to one for the level3 mods from Allan DeKok.
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 26, 2020, at 12:29 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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