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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Date past 2000?
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.055432.9960@uwasa.fi>
Date: 15 Mar 91 05:54:32 GMT
References: <91073.143037DBH106@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <91073.143037DBH106@psuvm.psu.edu> DBH106@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>This is a little early to talk about this, but I would like to know if there is
>any program out there that would allow setting dates past 2000.  I have tried
>setting it in the past a while ago and was unable to.  My Comp Sci professor
>told me it is possible to have a date past 2000, but it was not possible to
>set it past 2000.  Is this true?  If anyone has a program to do this, please
:

There may be a confusion here.  MsDos uses 80-99 for 1980-1990, and 0-79
for 2000-2079.  Try the date command, and/or whatever your PC user
for updatating your real time clock.

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