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In article <89361.134012JIM@AUVM.BITNET> JIM@AUVM.BITNET (Jim McIntosh) writes:
}In article <19...@dover.sps.mot.com>, wat...@darla.sps.mot.com (Strawberry
}Jammer) says:
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}>In article <qtlnvv@unify.uucp> dgh@unify.UUCP (David Harrington) writes:
}>}
}>}Unfortunately, I think date routines got smarter over the years :-(  :-).
}>
}>Well at least on Jan 1, 1980 that wasn't so, at least those of us who worked
}I worked for a credit union as a systems programmer in 1979.  On New
}Years Day all the applications people were called in because all their
}applications had started failing.  Believe it or not, their date fields
}had only one digit for the year!

After I posted the first response I bought a BRAND NEW 386SX motherboard
for my PC, using an AMI BIOS - being a true hacker I set the clock to Dec
31, 1989 and let the clock run over into 1990 - no problem. Next I tried
Dec 31, 1999 and guess what the "next" day was Jan 1, *1980*

I wonder how many other PCs are out there with this same bug in the BIOS?
How many 386 machines will be in accounting offices etc. by 1999?

Sigh ......

           *Mike Waters    AA4MW/7  wat...@dover.sps.mot.com *
Fairy Tale, n.:
	A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.