Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Y2K Compliance for Windows in 10 Easy Clicks

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

Windows 95,98,2000, NT 3.5,4.0 will not crash as stated below due to the
date being 00. It will simply pass 00 as the year to any application that
asks for it. Your applications may crash, although this is very unlikely.
They will simply display the year as 00. Not a problem.

Rob Sandelin
Microsoft Technical Writer
Northwest Intentional Communties Association
Building a better society, one neighborhood at a time

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cohousing-l [at] freedom.mtn.org [mailto:cohousing-l [at] 
> freedom.mtn.org]On
> Behalf Of allenbutcher [at] juno.com
> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 3:42 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Y2K Compliance for Windows in 10 Easy Clicks
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>
> Y2K:  How Long Will You Put Off Dealing With This?
> or
> Y2K Bug Relief in 10 Easy Clicks
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> 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.
>
>
> Click on "START".
> Click on "SETTINGS".
> Double click on "Control Panel".
> Double click on "Regional settings" icon (look for the little world
> globe), not the date and time icon "Regional Settings."
>
>
> 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 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. (*)
>
>
> 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).
>
>
> Then click on "Apply".
> Then click on "OK" at the botton.
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>
> Easy enough to fix. However, every "as distributed" installation of
> Windows worldwide is defaulted to fail Y2K rollover...
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>
> 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!
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