Re: Y2K Skepticism

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Tue, 05 May 1998 21:09:36 -0700


Harvey Newstrom:
At 12:36 PM 4/9/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Dismissing the problem without looking at the facts is just as bad as
>exaggerating the problem. Most people use Microsoft products on
>Microsoft Windows, so here are a few examples from Microsoft Technical
>Support. Unless you apply these patches as they come out, your Windows
>PC will fail in the year 2000:
>
>Windows 95 DATE command rejects years 2000 or later as being "incorrect
>date format":
><http://support.microsoft.com/support/downloads/dp3060.asp>
>
Well, I don't know about the other URLs, but I checked my Windows 95B (OS R2)
and was able to change the date to 2005 with no problems.

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