Hi Mike,
The date setting utility seems to accept only a small subset of dates (1
Jan '70 to 31 Dec '99), but the master page clock rolls over to 1/1/100 at
midnight (after restart). There shouldn't be a great problem telling the
new millennial dates from the old ones, the creation year is given as 00 by
the operating system, while the clock displays 2000 as 100 . One problem
will be that if your battery runs out after 1999 you'll be scuppered unless
someone (B-D?, Richard Cox?) writes a new date setting utility. I'd
imagine that B-D could re-compile the original quite easily, all they'd
need to do is change the line or two of code that sets "out of range "
dates to 1 Jan 1970 so that it accepted a more realistic range of dates.
I wonder why they set their limits at 1970 (did they make them then?) an 1999.
Ray
At 17:15 +0000 26/11/97, Mike Clark wrote:
>We are running three BD FacScan machines with HP computers running LYSYS
>II. We have kept with this combination mainly because we make extensive use
>of the automated FACSmate sampler which is not supported on the MAC OS. Our
>data from many years is also backed up on MO discs formatted under the HP
>operating system. We have been informed by the BD service engineer that
>this hardware / software combination will definitely suffer from the year
>2000 problem but it is not clear to us just what the consequences of this
>will be. Does anyone on this list have full information as to whether the
>bug will merely be an inconvenience to us eg file dates will be wrong.
>Alternatively will the machines stop functioning and will we lose the
>ability to access our archived data? I do hope it's not the worse case!
>
>Mike Clark, <URL:http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/~mrc7/>
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