Subj : Re: Operating Systems
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Apr 09 2024 15:27:18

  Re: Re: Operating Systems
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sun Apr 07 2024 08:42 am

 > -=> Nightfox wrote to Utopian Galt <=-
 >
 >  Ni> I imagine there's probably no way to patch old DOS binaries to fix the
 >  Ni> 2038 problem, which is a shame..
 >
 >  I thought the 2038 problem was a unix time_t issue?

It is. And many DOS programs were written in C or C++ and used time_t (a 32-bit signed integer type, in those days) to store date/time values.
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