Steve Hayes is replying to Gary Gilmore, who wrote to Steve Hayes on 17 Jan
99  17:08:40:

 SH> According to the clock and my word processor it is now
 SH> 2002-01-15 5:24 AM

 GG> That means little.
 
 SH> Ok, so XyWrite is Year 2000 compliant for a start!

 GG> Have you tested?  Does it just run, or does it do anything
 GG> date-dependant? That's the test.  My car will start in the year 2000. 
 GG> That doesn't mean it's "Y2K compliant". 

As far as I know the only thing that word processors do that it date
dependent is get the date and time from the system clock and put them in
the document you are using. It did that quite happily.

 SH> And it gets the correct date from the system clock on 
 SH> my ancient 386 SX-16 with a ROM BIOS dated sometime in 
 SH> 1991.

 GG> I somehow doubt this.  When you changed the date, did you do it in
 GG> BIOS?  Did you reboot after the change?  Doesn't look like it, since
 GG> your message is dated Jan 15th, 1999. 

Yes, I did it in the ROM BIOS when I rebooted. 

The reason it didn't appear in the message header was that the BBS where I
uploaded the message was 10 km away, and I didn't travel over there to
change the date on the BBS machine at the same time. It looks as though the
header dates in BW messages are put in by the door when the messages are
uploaded, rather than the reader. That certainly seems to be what happened
in this case. 

Keep well,

Steve Hayes
E-mail: methodius{at}bigfoot.com
        shayes{at}dunelm.org.uk
   WWW: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/steve.htm

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