[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <62f37534-d939-4629-8217-c2926a1989ae at j13g2000pro.googlegroups.com>, Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfield at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> I suspect that the limitation is not on the internal representation
> of delta times, but that the output routines, e.g., $ASCTIM,
> simply limit the value to fit in a 4-digit day field.

   The limitation is well known not to be in the internal
   representation, as those of us who applied the 10K day patch can
   recall.

   Prior to the patch, LIB$ routines would return an error if asked to
   manipulate larger delta times.  Related to this, the C RTL was going 
   to have a problem at 10K days since the C/UNIX epoch of 1-Jan-1970.
   DEC released a patch so that the LIB$ routines would not return an
   error, even though they were returning a delta time that the LIB$
   and system routines could not format.