BeOS 5...set date past 2010?

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Hi All,

BeOS fan here that got Haiku running yesterday on a VMWare Fusion VM…loving it so far but I can’t wait for cifsmount to happen.

My question about the date was driven by cifsmount…I finally got cifsmount to work on BeOS 5 to mount a drive on my Lubuntu machine. After mounting, I noticed that all fo the files on that share had their create and modify date changed to 2010. That seemed odd. I went back to BeOS and it appears that one cannot set the year in Time Preference past 2010. The next option is 1965.

Is anyone aware of a fix for this?

THx!

Von

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Check here https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/is-the-beos-revision-5-out-of-time-beos-inc-beos-revision-5-and-dates-commencing-january-1-2011/

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I had a copy of the Time preference recompiled for PowerPC that had a bug fix. It was on bebits, but probably doesn’t exist anymore. IIRC. I can see if I can obtain an Intel one, but I have no means of testing it.

Edit: yeah, it was here: Time pref for PowerPC

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@Diver THx for this link. After reading through it and trying it on my Intel BeOS 5.0.3 install I found that these commands worked:

$ /bin/date -s 05/10/2019
Fri May 10 00:00:00 PDT 2019
$ date
Fri May 10 00:00:10 PDT 2019
$ /bin/date -s 23:24:25
Fri May 10 23:24:25 PDT 2019

And seemed to keep the time/date after a restart. I now need to get the timezone figured out as every file in mounted Lubuntu director had their modified dated changed to a date ~6 hours in the future.

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@memsom…thx for this. I poked around on wayback for the Intel version and could not find it as that is what I need and would like to try.

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I don’t think there was ever an Intel version made.

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i just uploaded CClock to the bebytes repository.

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Thanks for this. I installed it and after finding the setting to get it to English all is well. THx again!!

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If I right-click on the time, I can say “show seconds” and it will show the seconds counting in the deskbar. When I reboot though, it disappears and I have to reenable it. Is there something I’m missing?

Also, if I set the date in BeOS, that works, but then in Haiku, it shows the time as being 5 hours prior. If I set it in Haiku, BeOS shows 5 hours later. BeOS time matches the BIOS clock. As I was writing this, I fixed it by changing GMT to Local time in Haiku Time preferences. I assumed both would use GMT since they were POSIX or something like that. All good for the second issue.

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POSIX doesn’t say anything about that. And BeOS was designed to work with how the clock was set on Windows machines at the time.

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Good to know. I didn’t necessarily think posix meant Unix date, but I wasn’t sure. Also the date command threw me off. Thanks. Now I just have to figure out how to keep displaying seconds.