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Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:38:02 GMT
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Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr./IHateSpam/com>
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Jasper Janssen writes:
> On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:53:26 GMT, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Russell
> Nelson) wrote:
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> >Did you *tell* it which year it was??
> >
> >Then why do you think it cares??
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> It's a microcontroller. Therefore it has an internal clock. Therefore
> it can suffer from Y2K, if it hasn't been removed.
If you didn't tell it what year it was, how would it know when the Y2K
arrives?
> >Sheesh, this Y2K panic is getting completely out of hand.
>
> No it's not. We're not even close to getting everything away. How do
> you think we will fare if the world's stockmarkets can't function
> anymore because of a comp crash? or, which is a more likely scenario,
> the stockmarket will just crash completely because of companies going
> belly up when they're not prepared...
Sheesh, this Y2K panic is getting COMPLETELY out of hand. And worse,
because people are spouting nonsense. Somebody called a friend's
heating and cooling equipment company and wondered if their thermostat
was Y2K-compliant. You see, it knows the time of day, so it MUST be
susceptible to the Y2K problem.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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| "....even when only relative time is required by the OEMs, this may often be derived from chips that keep absolute time internally. Those chips that represent absolute time using two digit dates are subject to Year-2000 failures just as with (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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| (...) Ohmigod! That means my dishwasher, dryer, refrigerator, microwave, toaster and egg-timer are going to crash! DAMN YOU KENMORE!! Folks, think. How does the RCX use time? It uses it as an internal clock for operations. Think of it as a (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) It's a microcontroller. Therefore it has an internal clock. Therefore it can suffer from Y2K, if it hasn't been removed. (...) No it's not. We're not even close to getting everything away. How do you think we will fare if the world's (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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