Re: [Freedos-user] WAS Re: [Freedosuser] FreeDOS localisation project = 2038 issue?

2009-04-09 Thread Christian Masloch
PS: RBIL says that year must be 2100, I guess this means that MS-DOS did not implement leap years fully. The Int21.2A (Get system time) description says the year is below 2100 as you said. The DOS file date format can store years from 1980 up to 2107. Some DOS applications are limited to

[Freedos-user] WAS Re: [Freedosuser] FreeDOS localisation project = 2038 issue?

2009-04-08 Thread Geraldo Netto
Hi, talking about date what will happen to freedos(kernel stuff?) at 2038? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem Geraldo Sapere Aude Non ducor, duco São Paulo, Brasil, -3gmt site: http://exdev.sf.net/ msn: geraldo_boca_at_hotmail.com skype: geraldo-netto icq: 145-061-456 2009/4/8

Re: [Freedos-user] WAS Re: [Freedosuser] FreeDOS localisation project = 2038 issue?

2009-04-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Geraldo, talking about date what will happen to freedos(kernel stuff?) at 2038? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem DOS has another date handling scheme, it counts 128 years starting at 1980, so we have enough time :-). But note that many DOS programs also decide to use other