THere must be something that I am totally not noticing, but I can not
ever remember seeing a PC whose BIOS couldn't handle years >2000. Not
that I went and tested every one, but I have sometimes seen PC's dates
accidentally get set to a year like 2048. I can buy that banks and the
gov't will have a problem with older systems, but I have always been
under the impression that it was standard in PCs to store the date in a
format offset from some recent year (I think 1980). I also thought that
at least 8 bits were devoted to it.

Sean


On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Martin Green wrote:

>      Whether or not your PC can handle Y2K has less to do with your
>      hardware than with your firmware. If you have or can obtain a newer
>      BIOS for your PC you should be OK. Most Pentium systems I have seen
>      have a flash BIOS, so if you can get a upgrade file from the PC vendor
>      your machine should be able to be made Y2K compliant. If you don't
>      have a flash, you may be able to get a newer EPROM from the
>      manufacturer, or from MR BIOS (http://www.mrbios.com).
>
>      I know you said your PC is OK with Y2K, but this is for those out
>      there who are less fortunate.
>
>
>      CIAO - Martin
>
>
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> Subject: There is a problem with the date ???.
> Author:  pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> at
> Internet
> Date:    6/20/98 3:04 PM
>
>
>         Hi to you all,
>
>
>         Excuse me, I know this doesn't have relation with the PIC's stuff but
I
> think that somebody can help out.
>
>         In Windows 95 I change the date to the year 2000 and the calendar can
> work
> with it.
>
>
>         I have a new Machine:  IBM Aptiva D91 with Pentium 200MMX.
>
>         So That means that Intel solve the "problem with the year 2000" ?
>
>
>         Thanks for your time.
>