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(Century Register As Time and Date Sanity Check)
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Essentially; the method (described above) for guessing the century when there is no century register is much more reliable than the CMOS/RTC century register (if it exists). This means that the century register (if/when present) can be used in reverse, as a way to check if the CMOS/RTC time and date are sane (or if the CMOS/RTC has a flat battery or something).
 
Basically, you'd guess the century (based on the software's release datadate and RTC's year), then seecheck if the CMOS/RTC century is the same as your guess, and if it's not the samethen assume that theall CMOS/RTC hastime an invalidand date andfields timeare invalid.
 
 
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