Re: change "timeformat_old" from 6 months to 1 year

["Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury shurup com>]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, Mooffie wrote:

> On 9/19/16, Mooffie <mooffie gmail com> wrote:
> > One possibility is to modify MC's source code:
> >
> >     https://source.midnight-commander.org/S/lib--timefmt.c.html#L133
> >
> > Change the "6L" (six months) to "12L".
>
> Or you can edit the MC binary directly.
>
> That expression (6 * 30 * 24 * 60 * 60) equals 0x00ed4e00. Use MC's
> viewer to edit /usr/bin/mc: press <f4> for hex view. Search for "00 4e
> ed 00" (assuming little endian). But it turns out MC's hex search has
> a bug: you should tick the "All charsets" and "Case sensitive"
> checkboxes first.

... which reminds of how I learned the first pieces of knowledge about hex 
some 20 years ago: I set out to patch Dune 2 save files to get unlimited 
spice by replacing the actual value with FF FF (having overheard the 
conversation in the corridor). Of course, on the first attempt, I did it 
in ACSII mode and guess what, it didn't work! Later, I've got my hands on 
hiew, as nc at that time, I think, didn't have a hex editor inbuilt.

Are we seriously THAT old? Sigh...

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Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev