Hi, folks...!
It looks as though my four PCs (two desktops and two portables) have made it
through ok to the new millennium. Luckily, even my old Sharp PC 4500
portable is Y2K-ok while running MS-DOS 3.21 -- yes, it shows Sat 1, 2000
and "00" on directory displays!
Nonetheless, here's an interesting DOS glitch:
Even though I have Y2K compliant PC DOS on two of my machines, I was unable
to correct the time to 2000 with the DATE command, which only accepts the
mm/dd/yy format; I had to change the date with a third-party utility or the
CMOS utilities of these machines. My 486 (no brand known) has an AMI BIOS
dated 12/12/91, but it allows for a four-digit year change in the CMOS. The
other machine is a modern 1999 Toshiba Satellite 2535 CDS notebook with PC
DOS 2000 in one of its partitions. Neither of these two machines allow for
a four-digit change with the DATE command, although they have supposedly
been made Y2K-compatible by IBM.
Does anyone know whether this is a known bug with PC DOS 7/2000, or am I
overlooking something obvious? PC DOS's command help seems to indicate that
four-digit years can be entered, but when I try to do that, I get an
"invalid date" error message. Everything else is functioning and displaying
normally on these machines... it's just this DATE command that's different.
Thank you for any observations or solutions to this apparent bug.
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