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Re: [ECS] ** y 2 k ** check this out paulv Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:42:41 -0700

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I DON'T APPRECIATE BEING CALLED AN IDIOT.......
 I THOUGHT WE ALL HAD MORE CLASS THAN THAT YOU COULD HAVE RESPONDED WITH A
BETTER ATTITUDE.



----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Kolb <davekolb@email.msn.com>
To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [ECS] ** y 2 k ** check this out


> 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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