Re: Year 2000 woes solved?

[Neil Palmer <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That ain't new.  There have been products to do this for quite a while.


On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 CVWD@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 97-09-23 01:27:31 EDT, you write:
> 
> > Year 2000 woes solved?  - James Romenesko, staff writer
> >  "A 14-year-old New Zealand boy says he's come up with a solution to the
> Year 
> > 2000 computer problem - but he's not showing his stuff until he gets a
> patent 
> > in his pocket. Meanwhile, the kid has let a computer analyst inspect his
> work,
> >  and the older pro says the young man just might have solved the dreaded 
> > millennium bug problem."
> >  
> >  Anyone heard about this?
> >  
> Yeah.  I is just a patch to the BIOS of some older PCs that lose the date
> after you shut them off after  2000.  (ie, turn them on, set the date to
> 01/02/2000 and they are fine until you turn them off.  Then the date reverts
> to 1980.)  If you have 286 and some 386 pcs and they are not on a LAN (if
> they are on a lan you can set the date from the lan) and you want them to
> have accurate dates and you do not want the user to have to enter the date
> when they start up the PC, then this might work for you.
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