Year 2000 Test

[tvk2@xxxxxxxx]

Here's an interesting test that I picked up this week-end: "You can
easily determine if your system suffers the year 2000 CMOS RTC flaw.  
>From a DOS prompt (ideally with no CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC>BAT) perform
the following steps

Power Off test
    C: DATE 12-31-1999
    C: TIME  23.59
 Power off for more than one minute,
  Power On.  Allow the system to boot.
 Check the DOS date.  It should be 01-01-2000.    If it's not, the
machine exhibits the year 2000 flaw.


Power ON test:
    C: DATE  12-31-1999
    C: TIME  23:59
   Wait for  more than one minute; you can watch an on-screen clock if
you like (but not the BIOS Setup clock screen). 
Check thet the DOS year has changed to 2000.
Reboot.   The DOS year should still be 2000.


While you're at it, check to see if your year 2000 is a leap year.
  C: DATE  02-29-2000
   If you get an error, the BIOS is incorrect.  Year 2000 will be a leap
year, so this set should be valid.



Don't try to do these tests from the BIOS Setup screen.  The BIOS will
likely wrap the date from 12-31-1999 tp 01-01-1980 (or 1994), not to the
normal of 01-01-1900, invalidating the test.

  WARNING!!!!!  You're doing this of your own FREE WILL.  The test worked
just fine on my Compaq Presario 2000.  That's the idea.  To try and
determine if you do have a possible problem coming up.

For further info, you might check  Year2000.com

I got this from a spokesman for the El Paso Electric Co.  He was telling
our computer club about the over 25,000.000 dollars his company has
allocated to the 2000 program. Has a staff of about 80 people now working
on it-- looking for, adverertising for more programmers, especiaally
COBOL,  for  as high as $85,000 per yr , next two yrs for sure.

So. I'm  passing it on to you.  I say again-- I'm strictly a USER, not a
guru.  Good Luck  T.C.