Subj : Re: Dos
To   : Ben Collver
From : Dennis Scott
Date : Tue Feb 28 2023 15:35:19

 Re: Re: Dos
 By: Ben Collver to Sean Dennis on Sun Feb 26 2023 10:00 am

>   Re: Re: Dos
>   By: Sean Dennis to Dale Shipp on Sat Feb 25 2023 14:21:11
>
>  SD> This webpage does a deep dive into this subject (and if you program and
>  SD> understand it, it's really interesting): https://tinyurl.com/4k99tutt
>
> Thanks for the link, i found it interesting.
>
> If i read that correctly, the DOS and FAT dates cannot be set to a date
> before 1980.  That gives a range of up to 127 years.  127 years ought to
> be enough for anyone.  ;)

On an old DOS / FAT machine, why couldn't you just set the date to any
particular date in the range then next time you think of it, set back to that
same date?  That way the machine would work forever. It's not like the date
actually matters or anything on those old machines.

By the way, on Windows machines, you can set the date from 1 Jan 1601 to 14
Sept 30828. I don't think you and I will be around to reach the end of that
date.

Cheers,
Dennis
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