Date   : Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:50:04 +0100
From   : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: Level 4 FS Y2K query

In article <090819005508@...>,
   Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh@...> wrote:
> Sprow wrote:
> > The top 24 bits of the attributes are private to the filing system. Some
>  
> Not really, byte 2 and byte 3 are defined as the object's
> modification date. 

Yes really, if we're reading the sometimes-wrong-but-usually-not-RISC OS PRM:

 "File attributes

  The top 24 bits of the file attributes are filing system dependent, eg 
  NetFS returns the file server date of creation/modification of the object 
  (see the chapter entitled File attributes). The low byte has the following 
  interpretation:

   Bit         Meaning if set 
   0   Object has read ac..."

> > [...] per AUG
>  
> Note that a HUGE amount of documentation gets these wrong. It has
> been propagated to a huge extent that each bit represents "can't"
> do something.

Yes, I've marked up my copy of the AUG to remind me of this error!

In article <4A8B4582.3030306@...>,
   Rick Murray <rick@...> wrote:
> > RISC OS 5-byte time runs from 1900 to 2248. &5000000000 was last
> > November as noted in my tagline for a few weeks.
> > By odd coincedence, &4000000000 was in 1987, more or less the start
> > of the RISC OS era.
>
> When is &6000000000?

28-Aug-2030,
Sprow.