For those of you running MS/Windows95, 98 & NT, this is a fix for a small
Y2K
problem *almost* everyone should have...
The Check
Double click on "My Computer".
Double click on "Control Panel".
Double click on "Regional settings" icon.
Click on the "Date" tab at the top of the page.
Where it says, "Short Date Sample", look and see if it shows a "two digit"
year.
Unless you've previously changed it -- it does. That's because Microsoft
made
the 2 digits the default setting for Windows 95, Windows 98 and NT.
This date is the date that feeds *ALL* application software and will not
rollover into the year 2000. It will roll over to the year 00. (*)
The Fix
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 two.
Then click "Apply".
Then click "OK" at the bottom.
Easy enough to fix. However, every "as distributed" installation of
Windows
worldwide is defaulted to fail Y2K rollover...
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(*) NOTE: Some application software would (naturally) expect the year "00"
to
be the year "1900". Some of
those applications might function (seemingly) OK...with merely the "day of
the
week" being misinterpreted
UNTIL: 29 Feb, 2000 -- which the s/ware will think is:
01 Mar, 1900 -- because 1900 was NOT a Leap Year..
Jim Rollins mailto:jrollins@sms-ct.com
Scientific Measurement Systems http://www.sms-ct.com
2210 Denton Dr. Suite 106 mailto:info@sms-ct.com
Austin, Texas 78758 ftp://ftp.sms-ct.com
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