Subj : Re: Operating Systems
To   : Nightfox
From : tenser
Date : Tue Apr 09 2024 12:06 am

On 07 Apr 2024 at 06:27p, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>   Re: Re: Operating Systems
 Ni>   By: tenser to Nightfox on Mon Apr 08 2024 11:48 am
 Ni> 
 Ni>  Ni>> I imagine there's probably no way to patch old DOS binaries to fix t
 Ni>  Ni>> 2038 problem, which is a shame..  Unless some people make new versio
 Ni> 
 Ni>  te> Meh; just set the date back to some arbitrary time in the past, perha
 Ni>  te> year where the days of the week line up with whatever the current yea
 Ni>  te> currently is.  I doubt many people would notice if a BBS door game th
 Ni>  te> it was 1989.
 Ni> 
 Ni> I'm not sure that would be a good solution though, as you wouldn't want
 Ni> your whole OS and other apps thinking it was 1989 or something.

Sorry, I don't think I was clear here.  You're already
running the DOS program under some sort of simulator;
simply set the date back for that simulator.

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