Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!gatech!mcnc!rutgers!mtune!westmark!dave
From: dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Year doesn't roll over on AT&T MS-DOS 3.2
Message-ID: <349@westmark.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 04:58:31 GMT
References: <905@neoucom.UUCP>
Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA
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Keywords: remember to set your date

In article <905@neoucom.UUCP>, wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
...
> I just noticed that the battery-backed-up clock didn't roll over
> from 1987 to 1988 on my PC6300.  I am running AT&T MS-DOS 3.2 with
> the biopatch that cures zeroing of the seconds upon reboot.
...
> Actually, I don't think it is a bug with DOS, but rather a glitch
> in the clock chip.

I have a number of 6300PLUS and 6300 machines in the field.  They
are all running AT&T MS-DOS 3.2.  All of the 6300PLUS machines came
up this week with 1988.  All of the 6300 machines came up showing
Sunday, January 4, 1987.  A `DATE' command was all it took to get
them in sync, but there were some hairy moments when a shared
database on the STARLAN server was being updated by a PLUS and a
6300 at almost the same time, one year apart!
-- 
Dave Levenson
Westmark, Inc.		The man in the Mooney.
Warren, NJ USA
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