Re: Why 2 Kay

Set your date to 1972. That way the days of the week will be correct. Feb
29, 1972 will fall on Tuesday as will Feb 29, 2000.
Darrell

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Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO]Why 2 Kay


> From: MIADsgns@...
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am a designer and manufacturer of miniature electric RC helicopters.
Being
> a model maker for many years and finding the need for automating some home
> equipment I built a 3 axis router to speed up my home manufacturing shop.
>
> I built the 3 axis router using an older PC and have had good results with
> until last night. In view of this Y2K situation, I tried backing up the
PC's
> system clock via CMOS setup routine. Except, without realizing, I entered
> for the year field"19" ... my reasoning was to set the clock way back so
to
> fool the PC into believing it was operating on the year 1919. However soon
> after that I was unable to access the C drive and lost system access.
Somehow
> via a DOS recovery diskette I was able to access the C drive but the hard
> drive file names were all garbled (unreadable), I did notice the dates had
> changed to 2019 and not 1919 as I had hoped.
>
> I realize then that this Y2K things is serious and became more concern
over
> its impact on not only my home made manufacturing machine but also on my
> everyday PC and the impact it can have on our daily lives.
>
> I feel I am going to have to trash my current PC router setup. I am using
a
> very simple program called DANCAD/DANCAM it came with the 3 axis
controller
> board I bought from Camtronics.
>
> Are there any suggestions as to what my options may be? I have other spare
> PC's I can try setting the date a few years back like 1989 instead of 1919
(I
> think I was to greedy:) ).
>
> Mario
>
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