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

philb@iag.net (Phil Barnett) wrote: >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. Here are a couple of references you folks out there may find useful: http://www.s390.ibm.com/stories/tran2000.html This is the IBM System 3090 home page, but don't be put off by that. The references in this page are a good no-nonsense treatment of the problem and IMHO should be required reading for all managers and system designers. http://rampages.onramp.net/~gtbecker/ This reference points to the best and most comprehensive description I've seen of the way PCs keep time, the problems with the way PCs do it, and a good description of DOS, the clock, and year 2000. There's even some free software you can call from autoexec.bat that will fix the problem regardless of the class of BIOS you are using. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Gregorie |Logica UK Ltd Gregorie@logica.com |All opinions expressed are solely those +44 (0171) 637 9111 |of the author and not of Logica ----------------------------------------------------------------------