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

[Johnny Billquist]

Ah. Found it: https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/decly.htm
But I thought it also mentioned when the VMS timestamp would run out, 
but I seem have misremembered. But anyway, it does show that DEC had 
already thought about beyond 2000 back in the early days of VMS.

   Johnny

On 2021-12-09 03:23, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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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