Nevermind!  I thought I was using the April 23rd Cog VM but was not.  The newest VM #3684 does not have this problem (as suggested in the ChangeLog!)

Please disregard!

Thanks again,
Tim

On Apr 29, 2016, at 8:00 AM, Tim Johnson wrote:

> Hello Squeakers,
> 
> I have seen a few cases now where I load up an older Squeak image with a newer Cog VM, and "Date today" returns a date like '8 January 1608'.
> 
> I used to regularly (and safely, I thought) use newer VMs to open older images, but that was more in the days when the Carbon VM was still being updated.  
> 
> This has happened to me on both Windows and OS X.  
> 
> A Cog version which still works is #3390.  A Cog version which does not is #3663.
> 
> Should I not use any Squeak image version below a certain cutoff when using new Cog VMs?  Is that documented anywhere?  
> 
> (Q: "Why would you want to use older images anyway?"  A: "They were laying around from older projects" or A: "I take them from inside older 'All-in-one' packages so I can quickly have a functioning Seaside/WAKom-or-WebClient setup")
> 
> Thanks!
> Tim
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