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- Subject: Re: [hatari-devel] Hatari clock question
- From: Uwe Seimet <Uwe.Seimet@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:58:44 +0200
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Hi,
> > I was thinking about potential problems in the future, when the date (the
> > year in particular) value increases. I have already seen such problems on
> > old Macs, where some applications fail to process current year values.
>
> I think best option to work around that would be to add "RTC year"
> option (e.g. "--rtc-year 1990"). Hatari would then internally offset
> year from gettimeofday() with suitable amount.
Yes, just dealing with the year should be sufficient.
> What would be suitable minimum year accepted by such option, should it
> be TOS version, or machine type specific, or would e.g. 1985 work as
> minimum for everything?
1980 is the base year for the Settime() XBIOS call, so it should IMO be the
minimum for everything.
Best regards
Uwe