That's test #1: will the date rollover while the machine is up (which,
unlike PCs and certain other platforms >;-) , is the normal condition of
the 3K)? Thanks for sharing; what version of MPE does your 922 run?

Test #2 is perhaps not as much of an issue for the 3K as it is for our
PCs et. al.: SETCLOCK to a few minutes of midnight 12/31/1999. Shutdown
and power off long enough for the clock to rollover. Restart. Again,
since the 3Ks I know of stay up 24 x 7, this is probably only a
consideration for those that don't (although the only reason I can think
of to routinely down a 3K is if you know that you are running memory
leaky C code, and why would you want to do that?). Perhaps our HP
engineers can clarify the behavior of the hardware / firmware that
controls this.

>----------
>From:  [log in to unmask][SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Monday, November 18, 1996 11:18 AM
>To:    [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       Re: Year 2000/HP Letter
>
>We shut down our crash'and'burn 922LX, started it up and set the date to
>December 31, 1999.  We then let the clock roll over to January 1, 2000.
>The HP 3000 kept running fine.  Robelle software ran fine.  Some third-
>party software expired and there was some that we had one or two problems
>with that we've reported as necessary.  Our preliminary testing seemed
>to be quite positive for MPE and the start of Year 2000 issues.
>
>Cheers,
>
>David     <[log in to unmask]>
>