Re: [gardeners] Y2K

Neuru L - Classical Studies (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:05:45 -0500 (EST)

According to the folk here at Geekland this will solve much of Y2K.  We'll
all find out.  Since my hard drive has crashed 4 times in the first 2
months of term (weird electrical bug, now seems to be fixed) I think I
have already had my Y2K and I'm not worried.  Lucinda

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, John Harman wrote:

> 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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