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Today as all of you know the INTERNET is the hunting
ground for one & all, from the old to the young. Realising this Acma presents to you the
question of the millenium "How to check the compliance of your computers?"
We do not stop here; we go one step further by giving you
the answer.
Here is a step by step guide.
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From your Program
Manager Desktop Menu selects Main. Select Control panel, and then click the date/time
icon. |
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Set the date to 12/31/99 and the time to
11:59:01. |
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Wait for the date to change to 1/1/00. If this does not happen then your PC is not compliant for the year 2000.If the date changes correctly, you can check by saving a file. |
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Create a file. After saving the file, close it. |
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Now verify the date on which
the file was created, if it is incorrect than your software is not compatible. |
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REASONS why the two test should be conducted? |
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Standard computers maintain 2 system dates: |
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Real time clock (RTC) chips a hardware component that
is normally on the motherboard.
There is also another one in DOS and Windows operating
system software. The two dates given by these systems are represented differently.
The format on which the RTC works is
century/two-digit-date/month/day while the DOS works with Days since 1980/01/01.DOS
maintains the date as long the system is running, on the other hand the RTC maintains the
date at all times, even the system is not running. The flaw in the RTC is that it does not
maintain the century in effect 99 overflows to 00 and the computer finds itself with all
that information in the past while we have stepped into the future. In the DOS operating
system 1999 changes to 2000, which is correct. |
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