2,000th topic

[Primis]

Since this is the 2,000th topic in this forum , lets talk about the Y2k bug, or more specifically what caused it. So I ask, how do you keep track of the time and date in your OS?

[gerryg400]

Since this is the 2,00th topic

That would be the Y0.2K bug.

Seriously though, to save space in my kernel, I use a single bit to represent the number of years since 2009. I've been testing for more than 12 months now and have seen no problems with this approach so far.

[Primis]

Whoops, typo! Fixed it though. So is that a signed bit or non? you would think people would want to access dates prior (think 30 year loan tracker).

[roboman]

From the jump table, item 65:

GetDate rd 1 ; 65. return : EAX=century, year, month,day, each a byte in bcd format.

[Candy]

At the moment, it's going to tell you "not implemented".

[thepowersgang]

I'm just going to combo break these joke answers and give actually how I do it

My current method is to internally keep a Signed 64-bit count of milliseconds as the primary timestamp format. There is also a 32-bit "part-milliseconds" count that is used in the timekeeping code.
(Which makes the internal representation a 64.32 millisecond count)