Maybe you've already upgraded your mission critical applications to be Y2K compliant, but continue additional Y2k testing throughout 1999. We know, most of our web site visitors are using a Windows system. Think over what consequences the following statements from Microsoft will have for your business, your PC, your network, your back-up, ... etc.
COMCTL32.DLL
When Regional Settings from Control Panel
is set to use two digits for years, the Date/Time Picker function may not
return the proper date. To ensure proper handling of dates: set Regional
Settings to 4-digit date handling.
TIMEDATE.CPL
Time and Date control applet - When the date
is set to February 29 the applet will display the 29th day on years
other than leap years when using the tumblers to scroll the year ahead
or back.
DIALER.EXE -
Phone Dialer applet - The show call log option
doesn’t display date correctly after successful completion of
telephone call. If date is adjusted to the year 2001, the date will display
as 100, 101, 102, etc.
VDHCP.386 -
Winipcfg/all - IP Leases obtained on or after
3/01/2001 are reported as having been obtained the previous day. The system
date is displayed correctly but the DHCP client reports an incorrect
date.
XCOPY.EXE
When using xcopy in real mode with the optional
parameter /D:date, xcopy does not accept years entered as 2 digits except
for the years 80 - 99. The message "Invalid date" is displayed. When using
xcopy in protected mode (from within Windows) 2-digit dates are accepted
but are recognized as being within the 20th century, 02/05/01 is seen
as 02/05/1901.
Some PCs reset the system date to 1980 or
other invalid dates when the computer reaches the year 2001. This problem
is created by flaws in the computer hardware and in low-level BIOS software
provided by other vendors. If users are going to test for this error,
Microsoft recommends executing the tests on a "test-bed" machine rather
than a production machine. Please see the BIOS article in the whitepaper
section of this product guide for further information.
http://microsoft.com/year2001/
Make sure your company is aggressively fixing the problem in their organization, or you may find yourself unemployed in 2001. The bug has been proven to affect nearly every business at one or more levels. Hiring someone to fix it will become increasingly more expensive as we approach 2001 because of the growing labor shortage.
Y2K recources can be found at many sites on
the Web.
We checked out some good tools to fix the
Y2K problems. Checking just one PC is a different task then checking a
network with some servers and some 100 ore some 1000 clients.
Please email some details of environment
to info@pro-soft.de
so that we can provide you with the tool
or information you realy need.