Is your car Y2K Ready?

[Teller.John at orbital.com]

No problem unless the car computer outsmarts itself when it detects time
going backwards (99-00) and decides its real time clock is defective.  The
results from this could be either a Check Engine Soon light (with Replace
ECU code stored) to resetting the of RTC time to something it thinks is
reasonable, like 01/01/94 00:00:00 (as does the Award BIOS in my cheap
Taiwanese Pentium when the rollover occurs).





Frederic Breitwieser <frederic.breitwieser at xephic.dynip.com> on 01/22/99
03:40:50 PM

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There are a lot of things that won't be y2k compliant, and I
would feel comfortable agreeing that some luxury cars have
dates buried in their code somewhere for logging purposes.

But in reality, if the date is wrong, does the car not
function?  Naaaah.  Just log the wrong date.  Me, I could
live with that !

<SNIP>