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To: Bill Rogers who wrote (8595)1/8/1998 1:38:00 AM
From: Jack Zahran  Read Replies (1) of 31646
 
Very interesting development from my research on potential Embedded Systems problems. It appears that systems that don't even use date and time functions may fail due to the Y2K problem. How's that? Many controller boards contain a clock even when it is not being used. This clock keeps ticking away and when it hit's 2000, some boards crash the internal software known as the BIOS, even though the date was never referenced. So Embedded Systems using off the shelf component boards may fail even though they don't use date functions.

Bottom line is that each System or System type needs to be tested. A simple solution for some systems would be to reset the clocks and let them start the count over, but the problem is that there are just so many embedded systems, the testing process alone is too big. Informal tests show that this problem is real.
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