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To: TigerPaw who wrote (130108)	6/1/1999 12:57:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

TP - Even those older machines have a "century byte" in CMOS - it just isn't updated by the RTC. According to the technical information coming out of MSFT, Win95, Win98 and NT are now all patched to adjust the century byte even on the older machines. If the machine is running during the transition, it will be updated on the last clock tick in 1999, otherwise it will be updated on the first boot after the new century. So even routines which access the RTC directly should get correct information, unless they somehow do something in the single clock tick before the century rollover.