March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
32h 54m
English
See Year 2000 problem n..
An ISA board that ensures that system calls to the BIOS return the correct year. The BIOS patch card checks the date the BIOS gets from the real-time clock and sends the correct date to whichever application or process requested it. While a BIOS patch card proved effective for most situations once the year 2000 was reached, some applications and processes that work directly with the real-time clock (not an advisable practice) actually received the wrong date on non-Year-2000-compliant PCs.
See BIOS test n..
See Year 2000 problem n..
See Year 2000 problem n..
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