The Voice Logger for the Dealerboard is an Industrial PC using DOS 6.22 as the operating system. The program has been written in "C". It does not use the date except to generate the name for the daily sub-directory to store the days conversations. Unfortunately the name of the sub-directory looks like this....dd-mm-yy e.g. 22-08-99 giving rise to misgivings that it may not be Year 2000 compliant. However we aquire the date from the system clock which has a 4 byte date field. The Voice Loggers that use a '386 CPU are not Y2K compliant and will need a CPU card change. The Voice Loggers that use a ‘486 CPU may not be Y2K compliant and may need a BIOS update which will be provided free of cost to all customers who have an Annual Maintenance Contract and who request the update. To check whether the machine is Y2K compliant or not, we suggest the use of one of many softwares available to check the Y2K compliance of PCs. Some machines are semi-compliant, where the date does not "rollover to 2000". The solution is to turn off the PC on December 31st 1999 and turn it on again on or after January 1st 2000 and set the system clock manually from the system setup utility. Voice Loggers that use a "PENTIUM" and higher class machine are Y2K compliant. The only possible issue in the software would occur if conversations a hundred years apart reside on the same disk/partition. Thus we can reasonably conclude that the system is Y2K compliant. |