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

Phil Barnett wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:09:19 -0500, Matt Bovee > <mbovee@eagle.cc.ukans.edu> wrote: > > > There is another very important year 2000 problem that is not in the > above list. > > Most PC's built before this year have a hardware problem (or firmware) > dealing with the year 2000. So no matter what you do to your software, > your PC will roll from 12/31/1999 to 01/01/1980 instead of 01/01/2000. > > So, no matter how you fix your software, the hardware may be fighting > you. > <snip> 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. -- Regards Arno Gerstle Analyst Information Technology - (Bellville) Tel: +27-21-4149623 Fax: +27-21-9464433 Internet: GERSTLA@TELKOM09.TELKOM.CO.ZA