Date   : Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:16:10 +0000
From   : mfirth@... (Michael Firth)
Subject: L3 server versions

Mark Usher wrote:
>> [slightly off topic] With 092 running on a Master with MOS3.5 ,
>> although
>> the date is correct a B accessing *DATE returns some very strange
>> results (such as the 54th of a month!) , although I'm not greatly
>> worried about that.
>>     
>
> This is what you are looking for..
>
> Update to *DATE facility
>
> Versions of *DATE shipped with original Level 3 File Servers ceased to
> function correctly on 1st January 1990. They now report that the year is
> `198:'.
>
> Two new versions of the *Date program are available on S.I.D. in the Dealer
> closed user group area.
>
> The two versions of the *Date program are :-
> DATE_M
> This runs in the utilities pages in the Master-128 ( Page &DD00). It will
> therefore run without conflict with other Master 128 programs. It should be
> transferred to directory $.library1 on the file server disc, and renamed as
> *Date.
> DATE_9
> This runs in page &900 of a BBC computer. It will not therefore work if the
> BBC computer is being used with applications that use the serial or cassette
> interfaces. It should be transferred to directory $.Library on the file
> server disc, and renamed as *Date.
>
> 1 Acorn Customer Services Newsletter - Issue 7, February 1990
>  http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Acorn/CSN/Acorn_CSNews7.pdf
>   
I saw this a couple of weeks ago too.

I don't suppose that you (or anyone else) knows if a copy of the files 
relating to this are available on-line anywhere?

I guess the other thing is it doesn't say how long after 1990 the 
commands will work - there was another Econet date roll-over at the end 
of 1996, and it may be that even these improved versions of *DATE only 
worked until 1996.

Regards

Michael