Just for your information, the Sony EVS1000E,
which is a UK model Hi8 edit deck circa 1992,
does not accept dates into 2006. The remote
commander rolls around to 1990. Attempting to
use a remote commander from a later EVS9000E
machine to set the date does not work.

A quick rummage on the Internet produced this
excellent web page:
http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_sw/idcal/idcal.htm

which allows you to select another year which
matches any given year should a video recorder
clock refuse to accept the present year. For
2006 I used 1995, and for 2007 I will use 1990
etc., though in years 2008 and 2012 it will be
stuffed. I was pleased to note that the
EVS9000E does not suffer this problem, it must
be somewhat newer (the calendar has no obvious
limit though it must wrap around at some point
way off in the future).

All the best,

Colin

www.video99.co.uk (video to DVD transfers)