From the nimble fingers of tedd@... (tedd@...) (26/10/2000
9:03 AM) came...

> Yeah, when one installs a new cpu card, there is a reset button you push to
> get the computer to acknowledge the new card, but that button also resets
> the params. However, I don't know why it reset it to Aug 27, 1956 -- what
> happened to 1/1/1904? Which incidentally was the subject of a help-desk
> story about a woman who believed that her dead mother was channeling to her
> through her mac. The help-desk person finally found out that: a) the
> woman's Mac had a battery that went dead, thus always resetting the date to
> 1/1/1904; b) And, the woman's dead mother's birthday was, you guessed it,
> 1/1/1904.

There is a never-ending list of folks who try to contact me through my Mac,
and I'm reasonably sure most of them are dead, too. I don't happen to see
anything unusual in this.


> What I found very interesting is that my computer, while I was on the net,
> automatically checked that there was a time/date problem and went out on
> the net and updated my time/date. Unfortunately, it fixed it after, instead
> of before, I sent that email.
> 
> tedd

That's buried in the Date & Time c.p.: "Use a Network Time Server".

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Ted Spencer; ted@...
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