Bruce,
One of my associates got a similar email from a client and spent an hour with various programs checking out the Short Date and Long Date settings. Purely display (at least if you have a Y2K compatible computer).

Barbara

>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?