[Info-vax] boottime in the future

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-12-21 10:45, JF Mezei wrote:
> Is it possible that prior to shutting down your system, someone had set
> the time forward to the year 2015 ? During the shutdown, that year would
> be writted, to that SYS.EXE (or whatever it is on Alpha). When system
> boots, it would see that year.
>
> Would that be possible ?

I think it's a mistake to continue talking about this in the terms of 
how time is inferred in old VAXen.

Newer system TOY clocks are actually not just a running integer covering 
about 18 months, but really have the full year information. There is no 
need for VMS to try and figure out what year it is based on a time stamp 
on a file updated at last shutdown...

	Johnny

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