Most of the BIOS clock problems were fixed a long time ago. The current
rage deals with the applications that have not been fixed to manipulate
4-digit year dates. The biggest problem is with the legacy applications
written in COBOL when conservation of disk space by truncating the first
two digits of the year was encouraged.
Jim Hutchinson wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> In the midst of yet another conversation with my brother last night about
> Y2K, we decided to see if the rumors are really true. You know the ones,
> where if a computer is not at lest a Pentium 166 or higher it is not Y2K
> compatible and will shut down when the clock clicks over to 12:01AM
> 01/01/2000.
>
> Check this out! I fired up my brother's 386SX16 in his basement, changed
> the date and watched it roll over to January 1, 2000. I then edited a file
> and checked the date written to that file. The result was 1/01/2000. I left
> it at the year 2000 and everything runs great even after shutting the power
> off and turning it back on! In Windows 3.11 there's a clock, which I
> enabled and watched as the date was 1/1/2000 and the time kept ticking away
> like it always has.
>
> So tell me what all the fuss is about with this Y2K thing - Please!!! Is it
> just another marketing ploy to get people to buy more computers? If not
> that, then what's the motives? Or is this just related to mainframes?
>
> Confused and unconvinced there's a "real" problem,
>
> Jim
>
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