Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 10:38:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Uncle Flatline <flatline@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu>, "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: robl@phoebe.accinet.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Year 2000 compliance statement? Message-ID: <19980207103840.31913@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980206100104.3710A-100000@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu>; from Uncle Flatline on Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 10:06:03AM -0500 References: <199802061335.IAA17390@spoon.beta.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980206100104.3710A-100000@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 6 February 1998 at 10:06:03 -0500, Uncle Flatline wrote: > On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > >> To be honest, I can't remember an OS (and i'm sure someone is about to >> correct me) that WASNT Year 2K compliant. > > Just curious: How did MS-DOS store it's date? What do you mean "did"? It's still alive and kicking and outselling all other "operating systems". Brian gave one format, which is used internally. Files have a different format, which splits a 16 bit "word" into 5 bits day (0-31), 4 bits month (0-15) and 7 bits year since 1980 (1980-2107). In practice, the year is limited to 2099. Greg
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19980207103840.31913>