Thanks John and Kathy. So I'm not going crazy(er) after all. Those are some
things I had not thought about, yet knew the question was posed to the
right group.
Off to more studies on the issue.
Jim
At 03:52 PM 9/11/98 -0700, John wrote:
>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
>>
>--
>
>John Stewart
>SUPSHIP San Diego
>Information Systems Security Mgr
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