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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (102)	8/5/1997 12:39:00 PM
From: Peach	of 9818

Chill, Bill. Don't shoot the messenger! I had no idea the "fire engine" story has been making the rounds. Sorry. For what it's worth, I agree with you that the second poster has the right idea. I do have doubts about how easy it will be "tell" the machine that it has been maintained on 01-01-2000. < Instead of counting elapsed time, this chip actually does a comparison between its internally maintained current date, and the date that the chip was last reset. > It would seem to me that if the internal date and the last reset date are stored with 2 digit years the following might be true: Internal date = 00 (programmed to use prefix of '19' - i.e. 1900), Last reset date = 99 (i.e. 1999). I'm afraid the machine would be confused when it determined it had been maintained 99 years in the future! Maybe I'm missing something, I'm just a programmer, not an electrical engineer. Norm

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