[HECnet] DECnet-10 doesn't work past Nov 9 2021?

[Peter Lothberg]

I think the best fix here is to change the base date to for 
example 2020 on systems we knew how to do this on. 

It will send a happy positive number to everyone and some will think
it's in the past and some will get it right.

(Johnny already said this..)

-P

----- Original Message -----
> From: "tommytimesharing" <tommytimesharing at gmail.com>
> To: "hecnet" <hecnet at Update.UU.SE>
> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2020 11:06:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [HECnet] DECnet-10 doesn't work past Nov 9 2021?

> I did some date arithmetic; there are 16,383 days between 1/1/1977 and
> 11/9/2021.
> 
> Since Tops-10 is calculating by half days, that's why I clamp it to the
> unsigned octal value of 177777 (3FFF hex).
> 
> Would a later version of NICE have expanded this to four bytes? That
> seems like the thing to do.