-Caveat Lector-
At 08:13 AM 08/17/1999 -0400, YnrChyldzWyld wrote:
>I would suggest people actually LEARN something about computers before
>disseminating such garbage....
>
>How a date DISPLAYS has absolutely NOTHING to do with how it is defined
>to the operating system...
>
>An OS can be Y2K compliant, and still display a 2-digit date...if it is
>compliant, it will correctly interpret 01/01/00 as January 1, 2000....
>
>If it is NOT compliant, setting it to display a 4-digit date won't
>matter, as it will rollover to January 1, 1900 (or whatever earliest year
>the BIOS recognizes, usually sometime in the early 1980s)
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Microsoft has posted on it's site that the "4 digit date" info being
posted on mailing lists is a _hoax. Just changing the display date in
the Control Panel doesn't do anything except "look cosmetic" and
make the gullible "feel better".
The only way to *properly* determine if you PC is truly Y2K compliant
is to perform a series of tests at the DOS and BIOS level. Boot
your PC with a start-up disk directly to DOS, type "Date" and "Time".
Set both to a minute before midnight on Dec 31, 1999. Let your machine
sit for at least a couple of minutes beyond the rollover. Type "Time"
and "Date" again. See what it displays. Re-boot the machine, again using
the start-up disk directly to DOS. Re-type "Time" and "Date". Observe
what it displays. If it reverts to "1980", your machine has problems. Next,
do this test again, except turn OFF your machine. Leave it off for awhile
and then turn it back on and re-enter DOS. See what the date and time
displays.
If it reflects the date and time properly to the year 2000, your machine
is Y2K compliant at the _DOS_ level.
Next, re-boot the machine and intercept it before it's gets to DOS. You
want to enter the BIOS. Once in the BIOS setup, change the time and
date to just a couple of minutes before midnight on Dec 31, 1999.
WATCH the time and date for the rollover. If you see the rollover
perform successfully to 2000, leave the new time and date in place,
turn your machine OFF, leave it off for a few minutes and then turn
it back on and re-enter BIOS. If, on re-entering BIOS, you see the
new time and date are still there (ie, Jan. 01, 12:18am, 2000) THEN
and ONLY THEN can you claim your machine is truly Y2K compliant
at _both_ the DOS and BIOS level.
If it doesn't rollover, your machine definately has a problem and NO
amount of cosmetic trickery with the clock display of 4-digit dates in the
Control Panel will fix it.
There's no halfway measure to this people. Your machine is either
compliant or it isn't. Flaming others won't fix it. DO the tests on your
machine and see what happens. I suggest you leave Windows out
of it and go directly to DOS. This doesn't mean drop to a DOS
prompt. Don't even load Windows, go directly to DOS and BIOS
level.
Good luck on your mission. Remember, Failure is NOT an option.
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