I received the following message from a friend. Believing it was probably a hoax, I copied it to our University gurus and they said, "that's a good idea." The message came from a University person totally untrained in computeres. Why the University server people didn't let us know is something I do not know. Nor do I know what happens if you don't make the simple adjustment. I went to my 6 month old computer and found that I had only the two digit year entered--so I changed it to the four year. Maybe the real computer folk on this board can tell us what might happen if the change isn't made--but until they do, my advice is ti check and fix.

Here is a small adjustment you need to make to your system

> to be Y2K compliant. Takes 2 minutes to do. One of my

> techie friends sent me this note today. I started to

> ignore it because my PC is just a year old and was

> "certified" as Y2K compliant. But I decided it only takes

> a sec, so I ran the test. Low and behold, my computer had

> the wrong settings, so I would have had a problem on Jan.

> 1, 2000.

> Please consider running this test on your computers (office

> and home) before you discover it's too late!

>

> 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. Easy fix but something

> Microsoft seems to have missed in certifying their software

> as Y2K compliant.

>

> - This is simple to do, and but VERY important.

> 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 button.

> Easy enough to fix. However, every "as distributed"

> installation of Windows worldwide is defaulted to fail Y2K

> rollover..