Re: Timemaster II card

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Robert Boucher wrote:
> Yesterday my Timemaster was time stamping all files correctly. During 
> this group's discussion on setting the year, I pulled the card out of my 
> IIe. I accidently put it back in slot 3, booted, realized my mistake, 
> shut the computer  down and moved the card to slot 4. This morning 
> Appleworks and Copy II+ are showing the date as 01/13/04.

It may just be a bad battery.  Does it keep time properly
while the Apple is off?  For a few days?  For a few weeks?

> I reset the 
> time on the card but get the same  results. It's been awhile, but in 
> setting the day, isn't Sunday day 0?

No reasonable setting program should require you to know what
number corresponds to what day of the week!  Just try the possible
alternatives until you see the correct year, then scratch it
indelibly into the circuit board for next time.  ;-)

-michael

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