No Problem whatsoever Geoff, I haven't changed a battery in mine for a
while and one of them thinks we're in 1970 anyway, I suppose it depends how
much of an audit trail you're expected to provide for your data.
I'd recommend that you change your date to 1970 BEFORE you go home in 1999,
the B-D filing interfaces ignore any file/directory (all the way up to the
root directory) modified in the next century, and you need to go out to the
operating system Filer or use ftp to modify them with twentieth century
dates so that you can list files again from within Lysys.
Users might be perturbed if #11 is an empty directory.
Ray
At 9:48 +1100 1/12/97, Geoffrey Osborne wrote:
>Ray and Mike,
>
> I may be missing the point regarding the signifigance of the date,
>but the work around I've tested here, and which we will use is as follows:
>
>* Set the clock back to Jan 1970 (or '80, one or two decades retrospectively
>to the curent date)
>
>* Use our current filename system which comprises a 3 letter day/date code
>(e.g. jan 1st 1997 is 7aa, Feb 23 1998 is 8bw (27 to 31 of month uses
>numerals 1-5)). This can expanded if it is important to access files for
>more than a decade
>
>As each file has the filename written in the $FIL field, you can always
>check when a file was created and ignore the date. e.g.
>FCS1.0 256 1319 1536 61535 0 0
>$TOT: 15000
>$BTIM: 16:15:58
>$ETIM: 16:17:45
>$FIL: 7KZSH015
>$DATE: 11/26/97 **** Any "accepted" date here who cares ??****
>$DATATYPE: I
>$MODE: L
>$NEXTDATA: 0
>$BYTEORD: 4,3,2,1
>$SYS: BD - LYSYS II Version 1.0 11/90 - HP Pascal 3.22
>
>So essentially my point is this, provided you can track when the file was
>actually made, be it by a filename system, or a filename and retrospective
>date combination, then what's the problem?
>
>Geoff
>
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