PROGRAMS ACCEPTABLE TO THE CINDERELLA COMMUNITY

Microsoft Windows 98

Assumptions:

Note: this test was performed on MS Windows 98 4.10.1998

Directly after installation perform the following modification:

Start - Settings - Control Panel - Regional settings

  Date
      Short 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 \WINDOWS\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: open an MSDOS prompt from windows, move to the
root directory (CD \) and using the E or EDIT editors
add COUNTRY=002,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\COUNTRY.SYS to
the CONFIG.SYS.

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 98
4. Run Clock application - displays 00:06:55 2000-01-01
Result: Acceptability Index 0 - Ready

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 98
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 - Ready

Note: There are currently reports of intermittent random date setting problems arising from use of the Date/Time applet. For Year 2000 purposes Cinderella recommends setting date and time from the MSDOS Window and installation of the SLUG2000 Starter Tookit.

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

System/Pgm      Display             Method  Index Iface Calc Comp Sort

MS Win98        YYYY-MM-DD       (Internat)  0   Y     Y   Y    Y
Acceptability Index

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Software Products used in Compliance Testing