Total Commander Changes attributes

tarlucco · Post by *tarlucco » 2003-11-06, 10:04 UTC

I noticed that using file/change attributes works ONLY with dates up to 1980. If you insert a date, e, 1975, you get a wrong date. I'm using total commander 5.51 with windowsME.
Help appreciated
Thanks a lot
Elena

djk · Post by *djk » 2003-11-06, 10:12 UTC

The same problem on WinNT

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2003-11-06, 10:21 UTC

This is definitely a windows restriction! Try the windows "date" command line program.

Maxwish · Post by *Maxwish » 2003-11-06, 10:22 UTC

There is a windows setting that automaticly changed all dates before 1980 and after 2107.
(try 2108 it will be reset to 1980)

Can't exactly remember where you could change that right now, but it is an option.

Maxwish · Post by *Maxwish » 2003-11-06, 10:49 UTC

It is not an option, I was confused with another setting (see windows control panel/regional options/date)

real reason is:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;58495

The year portion of the system date has 7 bits for storage (0-127). MS-DOS offsets the year from 1980; therefore, the maximum value for the year should be 2107. However, due to a ROM BIOS limitation, 2099 is the maximum value. The description for interrupt 1AH details the implementation causing the limitation.