In <[log in to unmask]>, on 07/05/99
   at 12:12 AM, "L. Hooper" <[log in to unmask]> said:

>Michael, I think that the ISA card solution is a waste of money
>and the Y2K problem can be averted for free in most cases. If I'm
>wrong, I hope this generates a lively debate on this list because
>the time is ripe for discussing this.

>There is an extensive article in the PC Magazine archives on
>this;
>http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/special/y2k/features/main/intro.html

>And I like the part about waiting until after 1-1-00 and
>reconfiguring the bios as explained here;
>http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/special/y2k/features/main/correct.html

Ok, i'm a sucker for lively debate:)

Try the ZD correction.
 I have two 486's, different motherboards but both have Award 4.50
Bioses, and suprizingly, they both behave the same.

1. Reset and go to BIOS setup. Change date to 2000. Reboot. DOS
reports the date as 2094, which is slightly in error.

2. Use DOS date command to set the date to mm-dd-00. Can't do
that. 00 is the code that indicates that the date has not been
set.

3. Sneek up on it; Use DOS to set date to 12-31-99, time to
23:59:50 and wait for it to roll over to 2000. Yahoo! Do not
reboot until 2001. This may be a problem if you are running
Windows. Date after reboot is 1994.

So much for the wizzes that write for PC Mag.

4. Ignore the problem. In 2001 it will be gone.


Don't forget to check the leap year problem. 2000 is a leap year.
By the way, if the RTC manufacturers had followed IBM's lead, this
problem would be the Y2050 problem, and we wouldn't care.


jan lambert
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