Re: Crashes when clock year is five digit

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Your post reminded me of this thread, a few months back, which may be of interest

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_frm/thread/e9d1e4b4563a111e/4bf7d29eca4dfa48?lnk=st&q=insubject%3Ahave+insubject%3Au+insubject%3Aseen+insubject%3Awhat+insubject%3Ahappens&rnum=3&hl=en#4bf7d29eca4dfa48


Jon

"maxfloden" <maxfloden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:46D1D497-295E-4D46-A1AF-8ECA18EC3986@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I believe, but i'm not completly certain the year was 4xxxx. It *could* have
been 3xxxx also. (I was more focused on just getting my computer to work than
to document what was wrong...)

"Jon" wrote:

Looks like you can go up to year 30827 using that method, which still
wouldn't explain your scenario.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/systemtime_str.asp

Jon


"Jon" <Email_Address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OjtWdi$AGHA.532@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Quite possibly. This would be a possible c++ function to use, if anyone > is
> mad enough to try
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/setsystemtime.asp
>
> The code would be something like
>
> SYSTEMTIME CurrentTime, NewTime;
> GetSystemTime(&CurrentTime);
>
> //Just change the year
> NewTime.wYear = 40105;
>
> //Change Time
> SetSystemTime(&NewTime);
> ::SendMessage(HWND_TOPMOST, WM_TIMECHANGE, 0,0);
>
>
> Jon
>
>
> "maxfloden" <maxfloden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:42E992F9-4E48-4A33-B068-9DC1613001CD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Thanks for reproducing. I did not have any problem rebooting however.
>>
>> I can imagine that you might be able to go even further with the years
>> using
>> C# or maybe bios settings (have not tried neither).
>>
>>
>> "Jon" wrote:
>>
>>> Seem to get firewall, antivirus, program crashes with any year beyond
>>> year
>>> 2100, from what I can see, plus an inability to reboot without >>> changing
>>> the
>>> clock via the BIOS.
>>> [So don't try this at home]
>>>
>>> Strangely, also you can set "18th December" dates up to year 8906, >>> but
>>> not
>>> 8907 using the command line command
>>>
>>> date 18/12/8906
>>>
>>> but
>>>
>>> date 18/12/8907 is not acceptable.
>>>
>>> Perhaps Microsoft know something we don't about the date the world >>> ends.
>>>
>>> Thanks for sharing.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "maxfloden" <maxfloden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:9864BA28-ACD4-4E94-B151-06A56B7DADE5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> >I just thought I'd share this very strange error I just recovered >>> >from.
>>> >Maybe
>>> > this will help someone else and maybe this is something that needs >>> > to
>>> > be
>>> > fixed by Microsoft - at least to me it seems like this could be a
>>> > potential
>>> > voulnerability? Or maybe it's already a known issue even though I
>>> > couldn't
>>> > find anything about it.
>>> >
>>> > After applying the Microsoft December update (I'm using WinXP SP2) >>> > I
>>> > started
>>> > getting all kinds of strange errors, some examples:
>>> > - Grisoft AVG antivirus would crash on startup and give me error
>>> > message
>>> > and
>>> > a error dump stating Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
>>> > - Skype would crash on startup.
>>> > - Sun Java update process would crash on stratup.
>>> > - Running Ad-Aware could not start properly and/or download >>> > updates.
>>> > - Running Microsoft and/or Windows update just gave an error >>> > message
>>> > saying
>>> > basically "there is something wrong with the web server right now,
>>> > cannot
>>> > run, check back later"
>>> > - World Community Grid wouldn't start
>>> > - I couldn't log on to some forums I frequently visit, my guess was
>>> > that
>>> > cookies were somehow being blocked. After awhile I found out that >>> > it
>>> > didn't
>>> > work in IE but Firefox was ok.
>>> >
>>> > Naturally I thought I had gotten some kind of virus. Since I >>> > couldn't
>>> > get
>>> > my
>>> > own Antivirus to work I went to Trend Micro's online scan
>>> > ("HouseCall").
>>> > Using their "browser kernel" (active-x?) did not work at all, using
>>> > the
>>> > "java
>>> > kernel" did a 1 second scan of my entire computer! (ie it did not >>> > scan
>>> > it
>>> > at
>>> > all) and came back saying my computer is ok.
>>> >
>>> > I restarted in safe mode, did chkdsk, defrag, removed page file,
>>> > searching
>>> > the net for a solution etc. etc. and spent many hours last night
>>> > trying to
>>> > get a grip on this.
>>> >
>>> > Then just now I surfed a page in Firefox and got a certificate >>> > warning
>>> > where
>>> > I notice my date is 18 December 40105. Year 40105 - What?? (give or
>>> > take a
>>> > few hundred years, it's a five digit year, everything except the >>> > year
>>> > is
>>> > correct) I double click my clock to correct it using "Update time"
>>> > from
>>> > the
>>> > "Internet time" tab but I get a time out error so after a few >>> > attempts
>>> > I
>>> > set
>>> > the year manually and --- everything starts working ok again!! (at
>>> > least
>>> > so
>>> > it seems at this time)
>>> >
>>> > I don't know if this actually had anything to do with the December
>>> > update
>>> > or
>>> > if it's just my computer (I've been getting a lot of blue screens
>>> > lately,
>>> > think I have some kind of hw failure) or maybe I somehow have >>> > changed
>>> > the
>>> > date myself without noticing or it's just something else.
>>> > I would also get several Microsoft crash report dialogs - "Would >>> > you
>>> > like
>>> > to
>>> > report this error to MS" - and sent several of theese but none came
>>> > back
>>> > with
>>> > the solution - ie "Your clock is f**ked up".
>>> >
>>> > I haven't tried to recreate this - I'm just all too happy having my
>>> > computer
>>> > work again - but my guess is all you have to do is set the system >>> > date
>>> > to
>>> > a
>>> > year that is five digit.
>>> >
>>> > Your thoughts on this?
>>> >
>>> > Max
>>> >
>>> > Ps: Sorry if I should be posting in some other newsgroup, please
>>> > direct me
>>> > if I'm at the wrong place.
>>>
>>>
>



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