Subj : Re: Operating Systems
To   : tenser
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Apr 07 2024 18:27:55

  Re: Re: Operating Systems
  By: tenser to Nightfox on Mon Apr 08 2024 11:48 am

 Ni>> I imagine there's probably no way to patch old DOS binaries to fix the
 Ni>> 2038 problem, which is a shame..  Unless some people make new versions

 te> Meh; just set the date back to some arbitrary time in the past, perhaps a
 te> year where the days of the week line up with whatever the current year it
 te> currently is.  I doubt many people would notice if a BBS door game thought
 te> it was 1989.

I'm not sure that would be a good solution though, as you wouldn't want your whole OS and other apps thinking it was 1989 or something.

Nightfox
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