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|    Chris Townley to Johnny Billquist    |
|    Re: [OT] Time flies...    |
|    10 Jan 25 11:36:42    |
      From: news@cct-net.co.uk              On 10/01/2025 02:00, Johnny Billquist wrote:              > I can definitely see that for C code using C functions. Also, wasn't       > there some issue with C code in some runtime environment under VMS where       > times were expressed as delta times which hit a problem at 10000 days?       >       > But apart from things centered around C one way or another, I can't see       > that VMS would care.       >       > Johnny       >       DEC Basic by default had dates stored in a signed work as year since       1970, plus Julian day. Hence the would have broken at the start of 2003              --       Chris              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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