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To: jbn3 who wrote (27552)	1/14/1998 10:10:00 AM
From: jim kelley	Respond to of 176387

3, The older hardware has a clock which has too few digits to represent more than a century. Part of the solution is to add some digits to the clock. BIOS firmware supports access to this hardware clock so the BIOS has to change as well. The OS may reference this clock so it needs to be able to store the extra digits so the OS has to be able to access the bigger clock. The hardware/firmware/ OS fixes however do not take care of the application programs which may have been written many years ago for the smaller clock. These programs have to be either replaced or rewritten. 1) It is part of the fix. 2) It may make sense to simply upgrade the servers. It would be difficult and klugey to try to fix the application programs without fixing the clock hardware. Hopr this helps....