@tubetime I booted a NeXTstation in Sep 2022 and just had to check whether I tweeted this preposterous message or tooted it. Didn't know SunOS does it too!
Thank you for the swizzle table, I'm sure I'll lose it but it's useful to me anyway.

@tubetime we live in preposterous times

@tubetime Wrong but also not wrong

@tubetime I agree with the sun engineers. Why is something with a 20MHz CPU and 1gb of spinning rust (probs not the original, much more likely to ve 500MB) even powered on in 2023?

@tubetime The best bit about this message is that I guarantee you there are still Sun4s in production somewhere.

@tubetime I mean, big same.

@tubetime yours was the best account on Twitter, and now it’s the best account on Mastodon. Entertaining, and educational. Thank you for existing.

@tubetime I've been putting off replacing the nvram in both my ipx machines :(

@tubetime they never thought it would run 30 years later...

@tubetime
One day it'll be 2023.

1994: Bah! That's preposterous!

Reminds me of this comment in leapsecs.txt in libtai:

"Note for parsers: Negative leap seconds will probably never happen, but the year 10000 will happen. Please don't contribute to the Y10K problem."

https://cr.yp.to/libtai.html

@tubetime Does SunOS 4 still complain about a preposterous time after you've set the system clock to 2023?

@tubetime Just seeing that terminal font made me think Solaris..I think it’s still being used in 11 or whatever they’re on now?

@tubetime poor SunOS 4.1.4 :(

@tubetime it's pre-#Y2K compliant and AFAIK #SunOS that low doesn't even support #ZFS...

@tubetime TBF, it isn't wrong. These are preposterous times.

@tubetime That font brings back memories. I can still viscerally feel the slowness!

@tubetime This is probably the code triggering the warning:

https://github.com/csrg/original-bsd/blob/master/sys/sparc/sparc/clock.c#L403-L408

It seems to be checking for dates too far in the past (before 1975, by the look) rather than too far in the future. I wonder if it is reading a zeroed sector on the disk where a unix timestamp would be in a running system?

@tubetime @adrianco and boy does 2023 need fixing…

@tubetime The condiments of the season and a preposterous new year! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv0hrQYbTXM&t=775s

@tubetime 😂
cc: @ahl @bcantrill

@tubetime triggering 1990s memories...

@tubetime mhm, seems this SunOS won't run until timer overflow...

Keep on and wish you best luck!

@tubetime haha, I forget the name but there's at least one dos game that if you launch after a certain date it starts up with "YEAAHHHH STILL PLAYING (game) in 2023!!!"

@tubetime Preposterous!

@tubetime You can probably patch it! 🤔​

@tubetime Does it think it's the year 19123?

@tubetime Honestly just kudos for Sun for getting ‘preposterous' in there
#WOTD

@tubetime Wonder what the last non-preposterous date is according to SunOS?

@tubetime May you live in preposterous times.

@tubetime well, SunOS isn't wrong. It is a bit of a preposterous time.

@tubetime

@tubetime this is absurd... 2023 is ludicrous time, not preposterous.

@tubetime How did they know?!

@tubetime yesterday I learned there is a game called outrun 2019 for the sega genesis

@tubetime at what point does it start showing that kind of error? like what date does it start? 2020?

@tubetime It's fascinating - and probably a warning sign for people with long-lived systems - that systems increasingly won't reboot cleanly if they don't believe the date.

@tubetime Whoever is running that box is putting a lot of effort into keeping it alive. That "ZULUSCSI" vendor reference refers to an elaborate SD card reader that is pretending to be a SCSI drive for host systems that antedates USB or any other kind of hotpluggable peripherals.

@tubetime @ajcc A BSD friend of mine pointed out that this is ancient code and exists in some form to this day in OpenBSD and possibly other BSDs.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/kern/kern_time.c#L874

@tubetime That's SunOS 4 saying: "I'm too old for this S@#$!"