Re: Upcoming time boundary events

On 5/27/2025 8:15 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:

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 ? :-)
 

There is still a UUCP network.  It runs over the internet rather than
the phone system but it runs the UUCP protocol.
bill