Date   : Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:49:05 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: Level 4 FS Y2K query

On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 17:30 +0200, Rick Murray wrote:
> Johan Heuseveldt wrote:
> > Saving an empty BASIC file on FileStore from a Master128, the
> > file's *INFO/*EX details are (on the Master):
> > 
> >     TEST       FFFF0E00 FFFF8023   000002   WR/        09/08/09
> > 
> > Copying to a RISC OS system, the Filer shows:
> > 
> >     TEST       WR/       2  &F0E        04:22:25 13May 1901
> 
> 1901?!? I'm surprised that works, for NetFS (A3000, RISC OS 3.11) seems 
> to really dislike dates before 1981!

Yes, that's the point.  The date that the Filer is reporting is the one
that RISC OS extracted from the load/exec addresses, not the underlying
NetFS timestamp of the original file.  13 May 1901 is 0x00ffff8023
centiseconds since 1900 if I've done my sums correctly.

p.