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From: bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Upcoming time boundary events
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 21:18:42 -0400
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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