Re: Upcoming time boundary events

On 2025-05-23, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com> wrote:

On 5/23/2025 14:11, Simon Clubley wrote:
 

The details are vague since it's been several years since I looked at
DECnet Phase IV, but there's a signed integer delta date field somewhere
in DECnet Phase IV (from a base date offset) that overflowed, at least
if you followed the spec, in 2021 (IIRC). I do remember that VMS treated
it as an unsigned integer, hence VMS wasn't affected.
 
I _think_ it was in EVL, but I can't be sure now.

 
I fixed that one; it'll be good until my 100th birthday.
>

$ set response/mode=good_natured

I wonder if people will have stopped using DECnet Phase IV by then ? :-)

These old protocols have a habit of staying around a lot longer than
expected. For example, I suspect somewhere people are still using UUCP,
2780/3780, xmodem, DDCMP, original SNA (not SNA over TCP/IP), etc, ...

I wonder how old you have to be to recognise any of the above these days ? :-)

Simon.

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