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From: "Robert A. Brooks" <FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Upcoming time boundary events
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 14:52:45 -0400
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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.

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	-- Rob