Re: [gardeners] Y2K

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On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, penny x stamm wrote:

> .
> Byron, MJ,  changing the date to mm/dd/yyyy changes the dates
> on the screen of all of your saved files on the desktop -- for
> instance, "My Documents".  They suddenly have spread out
> to refer to 1999 (or 1997, or whatever it was), instead of 99....
> Takes up more room if you have a lot of files on the list....
> 
> I don't know that this will do anything at all for Y2K.
> 
> Penny, NY 
> 
	It's what Y2K is about. It's when programs make date comparisons
between '00' and '99', as opposed to '1999' and '2000' that the problems
can occur. '00' is always less than any other year - except '00' of
course.

John
 

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