Background: To determine whether or not WinNT 4.0 is within year 2000 compliance. From the outlined testing procedures found in the 'YEAR 2000 Testing memo', it was decided that since WinNT is an OS it is 'date sensitive'. From this, all outlined tests were performed. The data gathered is represented in table form.
             Equipment: To test, a Compaq Prolinea 590 was used with the latest bios installed (04/09/97). The machine had WINNT 4.0 installed with Service Pack 3.0 patch for the OS.
             Testing Procedure: To determine if Windows NT 4.0 would roll to the appropriate date, the control panel applet "DATE&TIME"(d&t) was used to change the dates. The machine d&t were set to the day before each date outlined in the memo. The machine date was changed to a control time of 11:59:45 PM in each case. The machine date was then allowed to roll to the date in question. The machine d&t was then reset to the previous date and control time. This time the machine was rebooted while the time was rolling to the date in question.
             In each case, after the time rolled, the date was checked to find the correct date. WinNT Explorer was then opened and a file in the 'c:winnt' directory was changed to check whether or not a saved file corresponded with the correct date. The data from these tests is defined in the following table.
             'Data & Time Tested' column are the Control values found in the memo. Both 'Post Test Date' columns are the dates found in each instance after the date rolled from the 'Date&Time Tested' column to the date in question. The 'Post Explorer check' was tested to see if the machine reported the right time. 'Post modification dates' are file dates after the file was saved to check the corresponding date. In each test, no problems with the d&t were encountered.
             Results: The testing actually caused several different things to happen to the OS. Whenever I rolled the date forward, The following directories changed t...