At 06:56 AM 10/8/98 +0000, Chad Gilles wrote:
>Y2K Listers,
>
>Our Y2K test machine has been set to several dates in the future, each
>time incrementing the date several years/months/days.  The question is
>will we run into any problems setting the date backwards to the current
>year? Lots of files will have create/mod/access/restore/timestamps/ect.
>dates set to the future, even many system files.  Will this cause any
>problems?  If anyone has experiance in setting a Y2K test machine back
>to the current date (without doing a reload/restore), could you please
>let me know if you have experianced any problems.

Chad,

I believe Allegro offers a utility to reset the dates on files which have
had their dates set to the future so subsequent relative backups will pick
them up.  Any logfiles generated while the date was changed will generally
not be useful, or may cause problems if used.  So you may want to simply
purge them, or remove them from the system. Any future dates in the
application
data which is not reset may cause application problems with 'aging' type
calculations, etc.

The other possibility you may encounter is some 3rd party tools may
detect that you've set the date backwards as a part of their product
security and will cease to function.  If this is the case and you've
have a license for the product I'm sure the vendor would happily
re-enable it for you.

Just some of my $.02, for what its worth.


/jf
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