ANST - New Millenium

[Lord Larkin O'Kane]

On Mon, 02 Feb 1998 08:29:35 -0600, Paul Mitchell <pmitchel at flash.net>
wrote:

>I'm not a programmer, but I know enough about computers to know that
>they are even more stupid than people, and know only what they've been
>taught.  And if short-sighted programmers taught them that time itself
>re-starts at the end of 1999, that also fails to define reality.

If you want to know what will happen to your computer when the year 2000
rolls around just go to DOS (you know, that archaic operating system that
underlies Windows 2.1), type DATE and enter 12/31/1999 and then type time
and enter 11:59:00p.   Wait a couple of minutes (at least over one) and
then type DATE again.  Be sure you don't have anything date sensitive
running at the time (Like a BBS program, or a "stale file delition"
program.)   My 386  reset the date to something like 1980 (it's been a
few years) but the 486 I'm running now went quite properly to 1/1/2000.

Yes, I know that this has nothing to do with whether or not the 21st
century goes thru the year 2000.  It does, but you won't convince those
who want to party both years.


Larkin          Ignorance, like virginity,is easy to cure -- 
===             and the cure can be fun.- Daniel de Lincolia

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