Chris writes:

> booting the system with a date in the year 2000 and then testing system and
> application software.  Has anyone done this before?

Yes.

BTW, you can download and use our free tool to reset future file
dates to "today":

   http://www.allegro.com/software/#FIXFDATE


> I know we have to be concerned with software licensing since some of
> the software licenses require annual renewal.

There are two kinds of concerns:

  1) *may* you run the programs in, say, 2000?
     (I.e., are you legally allowed to run them in that year?)

  2) *can* you run the programs in, say, 2000?
     (I.e., will they run in 2000?)

      (The old "may/can" dichotomy :)

I'll leave (1) to you, your lawyers, and/or your conscience.

As for (2), it is an important concern.  Some programs have cutoff dates.
Others have bugs that prevent them from running after 1999-12-31.

However, you indicated you already did some testing with a
date simulation tools.  This implies that you've probably found
most of any such problems.  (It could have been *all* :)

So, you probably have nothing to worry about for (2).

Good luck!

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Stan Sieler                                          [log in to unmask]
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