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From: mikeoro@hubcap.clemson.edu (Michael K O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Problem changing date
Message-ID: <5482@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 15 May 89 03:01:33 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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I recently had a strange problem.  I got a lot of new software, 5 disks full, 
from various bulletin boards and during the course of testing them all out
my date got reset to 2/20/20.

No problem I figured and went to the control panel to change it back to 5/14/89.No such luck.  It wouldn't let me change the year or month and I could only
change the day +/- about 10 days.

Must be the PRAM or something i figured, so i reset that with the special
key combination. No such luck.

Must be a conflicting init, so I moved them all out of the system folder and
rebooted and tried to change the date. No such luck.

Must be a virus, said I.  Ran Disinfectant and Virus R/X. No suck luck.

Then I booted from a floppy and voila! I was allowed to change the date.

Question:  What the f$%k happened?  
(Running 6.0.2 and many inits, cdevs, etc.)

Michael O'Rourke.