>I just received a rather panicky email passed on from one employee here to a bunch of others that claimed that having the Windows Short Date set to YY will cause a Y2K problem. I just checked a couple machines here, and they're all set to M/D/YY for the Short Date - of course they have a Long Date, too, and I assume that is the important one, and what shows up on the Date/Time page.
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>I'm highly skeptical about the Short Date being a problem, or we would've heard about it by now - I haven't seen anything at the MS Y2K site about it, either.
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>Anyone heard of this?

Yeah, it's a "non-problem" . It's strictly a display-thing. It doesn't cause any problems. I had received a message from someone about that too, then checked into it and found out it wasn't a problem. I seem to remember reading something from Microsoft about it too, saying the same thing.