Re: Question: How will the Year 2000 bug impact your work?

Posted in 1996

Phil Barnett — Sat, 26 Oct 1996 05:14:42 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On 25 Oct 1996 15:09:48 GMT, frichards@cityworks.com (Frank Richards) wrote: >In message <327133b6.857182@news.iag.net> - philb@iag.net (Phil >Barnett)Fri, 25 Oct 1996 03:31:54 GMT writes: >:> >:>After you set it to 2001, turn it off and reboot and see what the year >:>is. > >Apparently there are actually 3 classes of date BIOS: those that are >fine, those that merely need to be reset once (IMO a tolerable PITA on >Jan 2, 2000) and those which will need to be reset every power up (I >agree, not tolerable). > >The obvious question is what are the relative proportions and ages of >classes 2 and 3. The obvious speculation is that the class 3 machines >are likely to be older. Are there any reasonable samples about to >extrapolate from? None that I am aware of. We are studying it, but it will be propriatary information. --- Phil Barnett mailto:philb@iag.net WWW http://www.iag.net/~philb/ FTP Site ftp://ftp.iag.net/pub/clipper