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To: Mephisto who wrote (23993)	10/10/1999 4:05:00 PM
From: William H Huebl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24894

Here is something my son passed on to me... I changed it in my PC (the short date format may be okay the way it is... no guarantees that it is a Y2K bug at all): "---Original Message----- Subject: FW: Y2K fix for PC's (please read) You may think your PC is Y2K compliant, and some little tests may have actually affirmed that your hardware is compliant, and you may even have a little company sticker affixed to your system saying Y2K Compliant...but you'll be surprised that Windows may still crash unless you do this simple exercise below. I know that I had not thought of this and my home computer and work computer would have failed Jan 1, 2000. Easy fix but something Microsoft seems to have missed in certifying their software as Y2K compliant. 1. Click on "START". 2. Click on "SETTINGS". 3. Double click on "Control Panel". 4. Double click on "Regional settings" icon (look for the little world globe), not the date and time icon. 5. Click on the "Date" tab at the top of the page. (last tab on the top right) Where it says, "Short Date Sample", look and see if it shows a two digit year format (YY). Unless you've previously changed it (and you probably haven't) -- it will be set incorrectly with just the two Y's.. it needs to be four! That's because Microsoft in their infinite wisdom made the 2 digits setting the default setting for Windows 95, Windows 98 and NT. 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. (*) 6. Click on the button across from "Short Date Style" and select the option that shows, mm/dd/yyyy or m/d/yyyy. (Be sure your selection has four Y's showing, not just mm/dd/yy). 7. Then click on "Apply". 8. Then click on "OK" at the bottom. 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 ... " Again... all I think may happen is the short date... the one used for displays... will go to "00" WHICH MAY NOT BE THE SUPPOSEDLY SERIOUS PROBLEM AS MENTIONED DIRECTLY ABOVE. However, if any program, including Windows, uses the short date rather than the long date... I would think it could cause a problem for that software. b