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Re: [ECS] ** y 2 k ** check this out Dave Kolb Sun, 24 Oct 1999 11:19:27 -0400

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That guy is an idiot. The windows software is designed to display 2 or 4
digit years by design and then let the user select which he prefers.
Internally, the date time is kept in an 8 byte double with integral years
and fractional hours no matter how displayed.

Dave Kolb

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sekelsky <Mark@sekelsky.com>
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Date: Sunday, October 24, 1999 10:59 AM
Subject: RE: [ECS] ** y 2 k ** check this out


>I had made this change to my home systems some time ago.  I asked our
>I.S. department how we would handle this for the company PCs.  They
>checked with Microsoft and were told that it is NOT necessary to make
>these changes.  It is one of the many hoaxes floating about.
>
>Mark S
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: paulv [mailto:paulv@bc.sympatico.ca]
>  Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 9:07 AM
>  To: ecs-list Van
>  Subject: [ECS] ** y 2 k ** check this out
>
>
>
>  Hi everyone, I'm sending this to everyone I know who has a computer.
>   You may or may not already know this but thought I'd pass on this
>tidbit
>   I learned today. You may think your computer is Y2K compliant and
>some
>   little tests may have actually affirmed that your hardware is
>compliant,
>   however, you'll be surprised that Windows may still crash unless you
>do
>   this simple exercise below.  Easy fix but something Microsoft seems
>to
>   have missed in certifying their software as Y2K compliant.
>
>   Click on "Start"  click on "Settings"  double click on "Control
>Panel"
>   double click on  "Regional Settings" (looks like a world globe) click
>on
>   "Date" tab at the top o the page.  Where it says "Short Date Sample"
>   look and see if it shows a two digit year format ("yy").  If it does
>   unless you've already changed it will, you must change it to "yyyy".
>   Microsoft made the 2 digits setting the default setting for windows
>95
>   and 98.  This date format selected is the date that Windows feeds
>"ALL"
>   application software and will not rollover into the year 2000.  It
>will
>   roll over to the year 00.  To change it just click on the button
>across
>   from the "Short Date Style" and select the option that shows,
>   "mm/dd/yyyy" or mm/d/yyyy".  Then click on "Apply" then click "OK".
>
>   Easy enough to fix.  However, every "as distributed" installation of
>   Windows worldwide is defaulted to fail Y2K rollover.  Pass this along
>to
>   your PC buddies....no matter how much of a guru they think they
>are.this
>   might be a welcome bit of information.
>
>   Regards,
>
>  paul venables
>  paulv@bc.sympatico.ca
>  or short text messages
>  direct to cel..
>  paulv@fido.ca
>
>

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