inexorabletash
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1 month ago Just commentary here - ProDOS technically has only 2 digit dates, in a 7-bit field. There are a couple ways to encode dates over 1999 in common use:
- Encode/decode values 100-127 as 2000-2027.
- Follow ProDOS 8 Technical Note #28 and encode/decode values 00-39 as 2000-2039.
Decoding using both approaches simultaneously should be harmless (i.e. translate 124 to 2024, and also translate 24 to 2024). But I would refrain from encoding using the former, since a value > 99 may result in the "19100" problem for tools that were not tested beyond 1999, and erroneously giving a year of 1924 is probably better than a crash or latent data corruption.
Hello! I extracted some files from Total Replay using CADIUS EXTRACTFILE, and for some reason the dates are showing up as 100 years off.
MacOS Sequoia 15.0.1. Cadius installed via Homebrew.