There are other problems with Year 2000 leap year support, Real-Time Clock compatibility, Y2K BIOS support and CMOS century settings. Yes2K detects these problems and when possible offers an automatic correction. With the date set incorrectly, many applications such as databases and scheduling utilities will behave unexpectedly, possibly causing data loss and corruption. Many applications are not equipped to properly handle a four digit year. To demonstrate how data gets corrupted, let's take a person's age for example.
Age is calculated by subtracting a person's date of birth from the current date.
The Yes2K tester is FREE for home users. Download Yes2K , the remedy to the year 2000 hardware problem. In almost every case Yes2K can fix your system if a Y2K hardware error is detected. If Yes2K cannot fix the error, it will generate a report stating what needs to be done in order to make the computer Y2K ready. The CMOS, BIOS and RTC are responsible for maintaining the system date and time when the computer is turned off.