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

In article <327133b6.857182@news.iag.net> philb@iag.net (Phil Barnett) writes: >On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:03:43 -0700, Arno Gerstle ><gerstla@telkom.co.za> wrote: >>I am running an AST machine and this one rolls right back to 1980, but if I set the date forward to 12/31/2000 >>it rolls over to 2001 with no problem, so it seems all I have to do is set my date on the morning of >>01/01/2000 and have no further problems. Also PC's attached to a Novell fileserver will get their date from the >>server, so only the server's date needs to be correct. >After you set it to 2001, turn it off and reboot and see what the year >is. There can be two elements to this problem: one is the actual clock-chip your machine uses, and the other is the BIOS version and of course, whether the BIOS is in a removable socket or soldered to the board.