[HECnet] Oldest VAX/VMS for VAX-11/730 on HECNET

[Johnny Billquist]

Now someone just need to post the link to the answer written by someone 
at DEC about the eventual wrapping of the VMS timestamp.

Time in VMS is handled pretty nicely. The only real problem is that they 
went with local time. Otherwise the VMS timestamp is excellent. (I think 
TOPS-20 use the same thing.)

   Johnny

On 2021-12-09 02:44, Mark J. Blair wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Dec 8, 2021, at 5:32 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>
>> While I'm sure there were various Y2K bugs around, the basic design in VMS was intended from day 0 to handle dates beyond Y2K.
>> So I would just try to set the correct date to start with, and if something seriously breaks, then I would consider shifting it back to an earlier year.
> 
> Oh... I set the time and date when prompted during the installations, and then when the system time displayed as 1982, I assumed it was not Y2K capable. So I tried setting the time after booting:
> 
>> $ show time
>>     8-DEC-1982 17:39:46
>> $ set time=08-DEC-2021:17:40
>> $ show time
>>     8-DEC-2021 17:40:02
> 
> And then after rebooting:
> 
>>    VAX/VMS Version V3.0 26-APR-1982 16:21
>>
>>
>> %OPCOM,  8-DEC-2021 17:42:34.01, logfile initialized by operator OPA0
>>          logfile is SYS$MANAGER:OPERATOR.LOG
>>    Login quotas - Interactive limit=64, Current interactive value=0
>>    SYSTEM       job terminated at  8-DEC-2021 17:42:35.06
>>
>> Username: SYSTEM
>> Password:
>>          Welcome to VAX/VMS version V3.0
>> $ show time
>>     8-DEC-2021 17:42:53
> 
> 
> How about that!
> 

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