The ability to perform these date related tasks will be verifiable before, or no later than March 1, 1999. The RTC is considered to be the hardware piece of the overall date tracking system. The operating system interfaces with application software, as well as other operating systems. Each application may deal with date and time differently, but retrieves initial date and time from the operating system, which gets it from the BIOS during system boot up. If the Autoexec.
Bat file is edited or that particular program is deleted, the PC suddenly becomes noncompliant.
Operating Systems initialize from the BIOS, and then provide system date and time separately. Network Operating Systems that are compliant will override the incorrect date, and some networks have a time server that provides synchronization across the network. But the PC itself does not become compliant just because of this override. Elimination of possible data corruption due to noncompliant PC hardware is the focus of this report. The initial report was completed in 1996, but many changes have occurred since then.