>Since Fox only supports dates to 12/31/9999, do we have a problem with the following?
>
>REDMOND, Wash, March 17, 9999--Archaeologists excavating the site of the
>early headquarters of Microsoft Corp. have unearthed more tantalizing bits
>of missing source code that could help programmers head off what may be one
>of the greatest technological disasters of our time in the months remaining
>before the year 10000.
>
>Historians interpreting the data found at the Redmond site, which the
>software giant abandoned and detonated in the early 8000s, after it acquired
>the moon for its present headquarters, have determined that the Y10K bug has
>its roots in the 20th and 21st centuries, and thus is actually a case of
>history repeating itself.
>
>Software engineers in the mid-20th century mistakenly assumed the systems
>they designed with two-digit year fields would be updated or replaced before
>the year 2000. But many were not repaired until the closing years, or even
>months, of the 1990s. Likewise, many of today's computer systems have been
>in continuous operation and evolution since the four-digit revolution of the
>early 21st century.
>
>Early software engineers have been universally denounced for their
>shortsightedness in expanding the year field to only four digits. According
>to popular theory, programmers 8,000 years ago were aware of the problem but
>chose to ignore it because they knew their bones would have long since
>turned to dust when the programming error again reared its ugly head.
>
>Popularly dubbed "Y10K" or the "Billennium Bug," this programming defect
>threatens to bring civilization as we know it to a screeching halt when the
>clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31 and the year outgrows the four-digit space
>it has occupied for some 8,000 years. Many experts fear that when the
>computerized calendars roll back to "0000" at the end of the year, the
>majority of computers, including those running on the Windows 9800 operating
>system, implanted in the brains of more than 90 percent of the installed
>base of human beings, will misinterpret the date as the beginning of time.
>
>A small, yet vocal minority insists that "0000" doesn't really represent the
>beginning of time. Since the modern calendar began with the year 0001, and
>the year 0000 did not actually exist, the Y10K problem doesn't actually
>exist, either.
>
>BILL 9000, Microsoft's supercomputer CEO, has offered a temporary solution
>to the problem by declaring the present year to be 8019, based on the
>controversial theory that modern history actually began in 1980, when MS-DOS
>1.0 was introduced. The proposed calendar revision would also buy the
>software giant almost two additional millennia in which to ship the
>perennially delayed Windows 10000 on time.
>
>While most cranial computer (CC) users have pinned their hopes on a timely
>release of Windows 10000 to update their wetware, BILL 9000 is downplaying
>the importance of the Y10K fix. "The reason for creating a new version of
>the operating system is to add the new features that consumers want, not to
>fix bugs from previous versions, BILL said.
>
>Although many technological pundits are predicting gloom, doom, and the end
>of humanity as we know it, experts in the field of human behavior suggest
>the outcome might not be so dire; however, they acknowledge it might take
>some time for people to adapt to independent thought again after so many
>centuries of relying on CCs.
>
>Elsewhere in the computing world, the "Open Mind" movement continues to gain
>momentum as CC users who have installed the latest build of the Linux
>operating system are now uploading their brains to the Internet so that
>others can take advantage of the improvements they have made. Meanwhile,
>users of Apple Computer's popular eyeMac, who sport the latest fruitfully
>trendy colors on their irises, are blissfully unconcerned about Y10K, since
>their operating system has employed a five-digit field since its
>introduction in the early 8400s.
>
>In other news, Microsoft suffered yet another setback in its latest court
>battle with the Department of Justice. The computer giant is accused of
>denying rival wetware makers access to the right hemisphere of the brain by
>"welding" its Internet browser in the right hemisphere to its operating
>system in the left hemisphere. Expert witnesses for the Justice Department
>have claimed that although it's a tedious and time-consuming procedure, the
>two hemispheres can be separated, thus debunking Microsoft's contention that
>the right hemisphere is merely a feature of the left hemisphere. According
>to Justice officials, if that were the case, nobody would be in their right
>mind.