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The upshot is that their cash registers print the correct day & date, 1972. Their sales reports print the wrong day, correct date, 2072. Their PC bios reports the correct day, date, and year. The compromise works well for their situation. _______________________ Booth Martin boothm@earth.goddard.edu http://www.spy.net/~booth _______________________ "Carl Galgano" <cgalgano@ediconsulting.com> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com 01/10/2000 09:33 PM Please respond to MIDRANGE-L To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> cc: Subject: Re: y2k reflections Has the PC date caused a problem (not being about to set to 1972). Have you found any PCs that will not accept a date in the year 2000? Carl Galgano EDI Consulting Services, Inc. 540 Powder Springs Street Suite C19 Marietta, GA 30064 770-422-2995 mailto: cgalgano@ediconsulting.com http://www.ediconsulting.com EDI, Communications and AS400 Technical Consulting -----Original Message----- From: boothm@earth.goddard.edu <boothm@earth.goddard.edu> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> Date: Monday, January 10, 2000 9:23 PM Subject: Re: y2k reflections >Interestingly, I have a client that went the 28-year route. As one can >imagine any firm choosing this solution also will have lots of old stuff >around including old PCs. Did you know you can't set an old PC back to >1972; that they go reset to Jan. 1, 1980? They didn't know that until >last Monday. > > >_______________________ >Booth Martin >boothm@earth.goddard.edu >http://www.spy.net/~booth >_______________________ > > > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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