This test checks to see what date your Basic Input Output System (BIOS) assumes to be the date after 8th September 1999.
This date is significant due to the potential failure of systems that associate significance to the date sequence of 9/9/99. This significance could potentially result in system failure or malfunction. This issue has significance in certain environments because systems programmers of the past have historically utilised this date sequence to indicate the concept of infinity in their applications.
It should be noted that this test is unable to indicate whether you have applications which may be detrimentally affected by this issue, but is rather intended to identify whether the machine's BIOS is itself directly impacted by problematic logic in this regard. Thus, users should check their applications independently from this hardware level check.
