Date   : Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:33:02 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: re. Century and time on the Master 128.

>Message-ID: <4f04b7f668info@...>
 
Sprow <info@...> wrote:
> > This also copes with the Master Compact incorrectly calculating
> > the year after 1996.
> 
> But the Compact returns a hardwired string of the last second of 1999. Or
> does the Econet based time get it wrong too?
 
The Compact MOS asks NetFS for the time, and returns 13/12/1999 if
it gets no answer.
 
Unfortunately, even though the Master Compact MOS was written with
knowledge of the 7-bit NetFS year count, the MOS just uses the
lower 4-bit year count. So, it reports 1-Jan-1997 as 33-Jan-1981 !
 
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