[Info-vax] More Y2K memories

[Michael Moroney]

Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:

>On 3/24/2020 3:17 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>> I have had the opportunity to play with some very old
>> systems I used to work with and stumbled upon something
>> both curious and interesting.
>>
>> For all you people who thought that no one was actually preparing
>> for the Y2K debacle here is a price out of a boot up banner.
>>
>> PRIMOS 23.4.Y2K.R1
>> ------------------
>> Copyright (c) Prime Computer, Inc. 1988
>>
>> A Y2K version of the OS released in 1988.
>> When were the first Y2K versions of any of the DEC OSes released?
>> (Hint: some of them never had official Y2K releases!)
>>
>> bill

>As far as I know, which may not be much, the VMS OS didn't need anything 
>for Y2K.  Basic got the DATE4$() display function.

I iwas in VMS Engineering in the late 90s and a Y2K relevancy check was
required for all checkins. As I was doing drivers/shadowing/system stuff
which didn't care about the time (other than EXE$GL_ABSTIM*) there was nothing
really for me to do.

(*) If your system is up for ~62 years or so you'll have problems because
of that.  Also if your system code did care about the time, it is in a 
binary quadword so it didn't have a Y2K issue (but will have a Y27K issue
or something like that.  DCL, on the other hand, will need fixing much sooner,
it has a Y10K problem)