Home computers that have Y2k incompatibility will still work after 2000.
You will simply have dates coming out incorrectly in your programs and on
your operating system's calendar.

If your computer is connected to the local power company and does routine
time/date handshaking before connecting and starting the hourly safety check
before emergency shut-down, then we need to talk!

gary r. tennesen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dave Perry
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 8:28 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Emergency Perhaps!!!
>
>
> I've just used the yes2k software on my computer to check hardware
> compliance and received these two warnings which is worrying me a bit:
>
> "When the year changes from 1999 to 2000, the CMOS century digits remains
> at 19 instead of changing to 20. Programs using the BIOS for their date
> request will receive a correct date. However, programs that read the date
> directly from the Cmos will receive incorrect results. As the majority of
> programs use the BIOS to read the date the likelihood of encountering this
> error is small. Its is least likely to affect standard business
> applications and most likely to effect programs and drivers that
> have close
> interaction with the hardware."
>
> The other message I encountered concerned leap years....
>
> "...this PC will not automatically handle leap year dates after 1999"
>
> Can anyone out there tell me how serious these problems are?
>

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