Jan.04,1980

[Ron Berry]

You should reset the clock in DOS.  Windows can correct the 
incorrect DOS or BIOS clocks but it can still cause problems.  
I'm glad to find someone else with a Jan 4 birthday.  I figure that 
computers reset to January 4 1980 because it was the birthday of 
one of the designers of the first Apple computers.

Ron


From:           	"Richard Moody" <remoody@easnet.net>
To:             	<pianotech@ptg.org>
Subject:        	Re: Jan.04,1980
Date sent:      	Sun, 2 Jan 2000 01:26:39 -0600
Send reply to:  	pianotech@ptg.org

> I didn't know I had the Jan 04 "bug" until a piece of software on a 15
> day trial period told me the date on my computer was wrong.  My mail
> box showed mail I sent to the list on 1/1/00.    However if I open
> that post it says I sent it January 04, 1980.   Well I didn't notice
> this, nor do I display the date on the start bar, only the time. I
> reset the date from there.  Should I still re-set it in DOS? If I
> enter dos from the program bar it gives the corrected date. (at the
> C/windows prompt)   Also, how did the software know my date was wrong?
> ---ric
> 
> ps  I was chagrinned to see so  much attention to my birthday 20 years
> ago...... pps,  I wonder how many posts will be in the archives dated
> Jan 04 1980? ; ) 
> 
> ----------
> > From: Ron Berry <ronberry@iquest.net>
> > To: pianotech@ptg.org
> > Subject: RE: Jan.04,1980
> > Date: Saturday, January 01, 2000 9:56 PM
> > 
> > My newer computers did fine but the 486 had to be told it was 2000. 
> > Try booting into DOS mode.  (Hold F8 while it boots and select
> > "command prompt only" or let it start to boot windows then turn it
> > off part way.  When it restarts it will ask to start in safe mode
> > but select
> 
> > command prompt only)  When you get a C>  type   date
> > it will show the current setting and ask for a new date
> > type   01-01-2000    
> > A 486 computer should be able to remember this setting.  Turn off
> > the computer and let it reboot. This sets the lower level BIOS and
> > DOS clocks and then the Windows clock will get the date from them.
> > This is assuming Win95 or 98.
> > 
> > ron
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > My new computer laughed its way right through the changeover, but
> > > the old 486 ... I visited McAfee's Y2K site with it, and it
> > > repeatedly seized up as soon as I tried to get the site to
> > > diagnose it online. So, yesterday evening at about 10 p.m. I reset
> > > its clock to 12/31/71.
> > > 
> > >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Ron Berry, RPT, Indianapolis, IN
> > ronberry@iquest.net
> > Check out the Piano Page at:
> > http://www.ptg.org/
> > for great information about Pianos
> 


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Ron Berry, RPT, Indianapolis, IN
ronberry@iquest.net
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