Microsoft Windows 95

PROGRAMS ACCEPTABLE TO THE CINDERELLA COMMUNITY

Assumptions:

Warning: this test was performed on MS Win 95 4.00.950 It appears that if certain Upgrades are applied then it is sometimes not possible to change the Regional settings correctly. So these mods must be made to the Base install BEFORE any patches are applied. Alternatively WIN.INI can be modified manually.

Directly after installation perform the following modification:

Start - Settings - Control Panel - Regional settings

Date Start date style yyyy-MM-dd (type in this new default) date separator - Time Select HH:mm:ss (select 24 hour time) also check correct time zone is set. This results in \WIN95\WIN.INI being set to: [intl] sDate=- sLongDate=dd MMMM yyyy sShortDate=yyyy-MM-dd Option: to allow the date to display as YY-MM-DD when in DOS mode: add country=002,,c:\dos\country.sys to the config.sys. Country code is usually removed from config.sys in the Win95 Setup process.

Test 1.

(Note: this test was done on a system with a known "bad" bios with a tickover problem)

1. From DOS mode set date/time as 1999-12-31 23:55
2. Switch off and wait until tickover occurs (+-6 minutes)
3. Switch on and boot Win 95
4. Run Clock application - displays 00:06:55 2000-01-01
Result: Acceptability Index 0 - Fully compliant

Test 2.

1. From Control panel run Date/Time application.
2. Set date to 1999-12-31
3. Set time (Alt-T) 23 (Tab) 55 Select Ok.
4. Shutdown
5. Switch off
6. Wait for tickover (+- 6 minutes)
7. Switch on and boot Win 95
8. Run Clock application - displays 00:06:55 2000-01-01
In Settings select GMT and check variance between local time and GMT

Result: Acceptability Index 0 - Fully compliant

Patches required:

Updated File Manager for Windows 95 and Post-Year-2000 Dates
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/W95FILUP.EXE

MS Win 95 2000 DIR and DATE fixes
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/WIN95Y2K.EXE

OLEAUT32.DLL file at level 2.20.4122 or better is mandatory for Visual Basic and other functions to work correctly. (Just instal Internet Explorer 3 or 4)

Summary

Where applications use multiple display formats the worst case Index is taken.

System/Pgm      Display             Method  Index Iface Calc Comp Sort

MS Win95        YYYY-MM-DD       (Internat)  0   Y     Y   Y    Y

Acceptability Index

Meaning of Report and Table Headings and Terms

Software Products used in Compliance Testing