[Info-vax] boottime in the future

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <jcre7l$nuq$1 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
(Michael Moroney) writes: 

> I guess SHOW SYSTEM doesn't do the equivalent of F$GETSYI("BOOTTIME").
> 
> I mentioned this because I once heard of a system whose boottime (or
> some field indicating when it was booted) got set into the future, and
> SHOW SYSTEM showed a date in 1858 or 1859 after the word "Uptime" instead
> of a delta time.

There used to be a bug with SHOW STATUS; if too small, the VMS base date 
would be displayed instead elapsed CPU time (try $ SPAWN SHOW STATUS on 
a fast machine with an older/nonpatched version of VMS).