RE: Microsoft windows date hoax

["Jerry" <jschutz@moscow.com>]

Thanks Marc....Sorry to everyone for wasting your time.

Jerry


-----Original Message-----
From: Marc [mailto:cram3813@uidaho.edu]
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 2:29 PM
To: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Microsoft windows date hoax


At 04:55 PM 9/17/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Ok folks, this is no joke nor is it an Urban legend, at least I'm
>no prone to being called a legend....
>
>I recently ran a Y2K checker on my home computer.  Everything passed,
except
>the Windows Control Panel.  I thought this a bit odd, but went to the
>Microsoft Update site and found no patches for the problem.
>
>So I called Tech Support, after waiting an hour on hold, listening to MS
>Advertising. I finally talked to a CS rep., who answered my question in
less
>than 30 seconds.
>
If this happened, you either: had your phone call intercepted by someone
who didn't like Microsoft and was posing as them, or you got someone who
really should not be answering the phone for Microsoft.  I, too, have heard
this modern myth.  I thought it was a bit strange because I figured that
the short date was the setting for displaying the date.  Why would an
operating system give the user a chance to change the internal storage
format of a date on a whim?  But not knowing for certain, I called my
Windows guru in Microsoft and posed the question to him.  He agreed with
me.  So I haven't worried about it.  But after reading your post, I decided
to invest 5 minutes of searching and look at the official Microsoft
postings on the subject.  It is here:

http://www.microsoft.com/YEAR2000/hoax/y2khoax.htm


Marc