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To: dpl who wrote (1646)	1/23/1999 11:00:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	of 110652

"Is there a way for me to test if my PC is Y2K ready?" There's stuff you can download that test your system. It seems there are different levels of Y2K compliance: totally messed up; totally OK; easy work-arounds; and hard work-arounds. A typical easy work-around is having to enter the date and time manually ONCE after the new year. Harder is entering the correct date and time on every boot. A quick test: set clock to 11:59 1999-12-31 and wait a couple of minutes and check to see if it rolls over correctly. This checks the clock which the system uses while it's running. Next, set clock to 11:59 1999-12-31, SHUT THE SYSTEM OFF, and wait a couple of minutes. Power up and check to see if it had rolled over correctly. This checks the clock which stores date and time the system uses while it's shut off. So much for hardware. Now software ... Microsoft has web pages telling consumers which Microsoft products comply and for the products which don't comply, where they don't and suggested work-arounds. You'll need to contact the other suppliers of your software to see what support they offer. Example: I use Lotus-123 and @Date(99,12,31) becomes @Date(100,1,1). A little messy, but I'll survive. Hope this helps. PW.

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