Subj : looking at getting Nomad
To   : August Abolins
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Mon Mar 22 2021 21:18:00

-=> August Abolins wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 AA> The workaround is probably to only use apps that do not rely on
 AA> dates whatsover.   ???

It depends on what language the program is written in.  If it's C,
just use a time library that uses an 8-byte time instead of 4-byte.

For Pascal, it might be different depending on what flavor of Pascal
you use.  Free Pascal relies on the OS to handle time and date and
stores it accordingly.

I seriously doubt by 2038 I will still be running a BBS but that's
only 17 years away.  I've been running a BBS for 25 years so what's
another 17 years?  I will probably have to switch to Linux then since
I doubt IBM will allow OS/2 to be ported to 64 bit.

-- Sean

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