#Date bug in AmigaDOS?
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A message on one of the TPUG Forums reports a nasty bug in AmigaDOS' date
handling. The message is #42826 on PCS-155. Essentially, the date command
will only set the date forward, and whenever a disk is put in the drive, the
DOS checks the dates of the files and sets the system date forward to the date
of any file that was written 'in the future'. Thus a single mistake in
entering the date, when followed by writing a file, can cause the system date
to be destroyed every time that disk is put in a drive. I have not tested this
yet (just saw the message minutes ago), but it sounds plausible. Anyone have
1.1? Is this fixed?
– Bela
According to the AmigaDOS users manual, this will happen only if the system
date is not specified. If the date is not specified, then the DOS will set
the system date to the date and time of the most recent file on the disk,
which insures that newly written files will have more recent dates. This has
been my expierience. Seems like a feature, and not a bug..?? SDB P.S.
Congrats on the new sig – *long* overdue!
Bela, I too have experienced this nasty little virus, and I think I caught it
from Maxicomm. Now the majority of my online disks are infected.
Note that if you specify the system date, that the disk version is
overridden, but alas, the disk in DF1: will redo it for you again as it
validates. <sigh>
Regards, Larry.