On Sun, 05 Jul 1998 15:26:13 +0300
 Atanas Kebedjiev <atanas@intransco.com> wrote:

>Chris,
>
>The problem with some "smart" BIOS chips is that they will reset the
>date to their own year of manufacturing. The DOSCHK page even reports
>such that will persist in resetting the date to 1999-12-31.
>
>* The CHK1980.BAT and its companion ENTER.TXT ("applied laziness" in
>action to save the user hitting the Enter key) exploits Charles
>Petzold's idea quoted in your earlier correspondence and might do just
>fine if called upon the AUTOEXEC.BAT first line for "traditional 1980
>bug" BIOS.
>
>The SetDate program operational logic is much like the Slug2000 1.1
>quoted , with two extra checks. (The SetDate.pas  source file may be
>reviewed as well)
>
>*SETDATE.EXE and the DATE.LOG file should reside in the root directory.
>First line of the AUTOEXEC.BAT should be "setdate"
>
>* If the DATE.LOG file, storing the date in ISO 8061 format, is missing,
>  get user date
>*Any boot date prior to the date recorded in DATE.LOG will
>get user date. A UNIX style "Run time backwards?" confirmation is
>demanded.
>* Any boot date that is in a later year than the date recorded in
>DATE.LOG will issue a warning congratulation and get user date.
>* If logged and system dates are both equal to 1999-12-31 at boot time
>( the case reported by DOSCHK ) again get user date. This will cause an
>inconvenience on the actual date, but who is going to work on THAT DAY
>but Y2K fixers?
>* In all the above cases except logged and system dates being equal to
>each other and different from 1999-12-31, a new DATE.LOG file is created
>
>* If date has advanced but year is the same, do nothing
>
>Finally, I want to sincerely congratulate you for all the outstanding
>Year 2000 work (there is no time for "activities" and "initiatives" any
>more) that you are doing. Have you already been contacted to write the
>humorous history of the Year 2000 crisis?
>
>Regards from Bulgaria
>
>Atanas Kebedjiev
>INTRANSCO, Inc.
>

Thanks Atanas. I have checked out SETDATE. I like it.
Great Minds think alike.
It is now available on the Cinderella FTP site under "Contributions".