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Article #1420Re: Year 2000 Solutions Conference
From: Tom Becker
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 00:00
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"... an interesting prank ..." If it hasn't been mentioned before, you might want to take a look at www.year2000.com to see what serious concern there is about the upcoming problem with two-digit years in computer applications and hardware. It won't be necessary to play any pranks; some discussions anticipate infrastructure failure in the worst scenario. The Social Security Administration has estimated that it might cost $50 BILLION to correct their millions of lines of code that rely on two-digit year calculations over the next few years! Although DOS itself (and Windows) will make the 1999-2000 year transition, the PC is not immune to the problem since the CMOS RTC (the hardware clock) only keeps a two-digit year; the century is not maintained by hardware, so it will go from 1999 to 1900. The next boot will produce a DOS system date of January 4, 1980. Many of your PC applications will catastrophically fail. Year2000.EXE, a free fix for the PC hardware year 2000 flaw, is available at the URL below. Tom --... ...-- http://rampages.onramp.net/~gtbecker Air System Technologies Inc, Dallas BBS: (500)673-4625 Vox: (500)448-9660 Accurate time: (500)346-TIME [1200E71]
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f6aa,fbbf7f174d4e596 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f6aa,public X-Google-Thread: 10c998,fbbf7f174d4e596 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c998,public X-Google-Thread: 1105ff,fbbf7f174d4e596 X-Google-Attributes: gid1105ff,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,fbbf7f174d4e596 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 102bfa,fbbf7f174d4e596 X-Google-Attributes: gid102bfa,public X-Google-Thread: 1037c0,fbbf7f174d4e596 X-Google-Attributes: gid1037c0,public X-Google-Thread: 10e6f6,fbbf7f174d4e596 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e6f6,public X-Google-Thread: fa6b6,fbbf7f174d4e596 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa6b6,public From: Tom Becker <gtbecker@rightime.com> Subject: Re: Year 2000 Solutions Conference Date: 1996/01/07 Message-ID: <30F069F2.42CE@rightime.com> X-Deja-AN: 134393586 references: <uspdi-2112951637280001@uspdi.clark.net> <30D9E2EC.4C48@mindlink.bc.ca> <EMERICK.95Dec22121026@csa.bu.edu> <4cfse3$8ju@dewey.csun.edu> to: eric schonning <hbcsc388@csun.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Air System Technologies, Dallas mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,bionet.software,comp.infosystems,comp.object,comp.org.acm,comp.org.ieee,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.sources.testers x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4a (Win16; I)