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JRS:  In article <Ko9I.175$E2.10822899@news2> of Mon, 23 Feb 1998
07:18:02 in comp.software.year-2000, "Gary L. Smith" <gls@infinet.com>
wrote:
>I've confirmed that the same thing occurs on MS-DOS 5.0.  The year part 
>of the date on files created by CHKDSK is 82, which would be stored in 
>the directory as 000 0010 (binary).  The correct value is 001 0010,  It 
>certainly appears that the top three bits are being lost, although we'd 
>have to try a variety of years including 2092 to verify that.   

In 2092, MSDOS 3.30 CHKDSK gives 1980, as one would expect.

demon.tech.pc added to NGs - The Story So Far :

MSDOS 3.30, 5.0. 6.20, 6.22 CHKDSK, when creating FILE####.CHK from a
lost chain, drops the MS 3 bits of the date; i.e. (Year-1980) is modulo
16.  SCANDISK is OK.  To test, create a file, edit Alt-229 to start the
filename, CHKDSK.
 
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