When you use the Winnt Find Files or folders feature, the 2-digit
abbreviation of the year doesn't appear correctly. For example, if the year is
set to 2001, when you click on the DATE MODIFIED tab on the Find: ALL files
dialog box, the two digit abbreviation of the year appears as :1, rather that
01. Taken from document Q183123 from Microsoft Tech support for Year 2000. 4.
When you define a custom property to include a date type in the Microsoft Office
the year may not appear correctly. For example, in Word, if you click properties
on the file menu, click the custom tab, click date in the type field, enter a
value of 01/01/01, and then click add, the date appears as 01/01/1901 rather
that 01/01/2001. Taken from document Q183125 from Microsoft tech support for
Year 2000 For Windows 95 operationing system there were 2 problems listed. 1.
The DIR command displays file dates using only two digits to represent the year,
instead of four digits. 2. When you use the DATE command to set the current date
and you type the year as only two digits from 00 through 79, the DATE command
displays the error message Incorrect date format. (These documents are included
with this report)
In each case, Microsoft states that if you are having these problems,
installation the next service release should fix these problems although, this
release isn't available yet. During testing, I checked for 2of 4 problems and in
each case didn't find them. I left out items 1,4. Item 1 was left out because in
our operation we don't set Local accounts to expire, we use the Domain model so
this testing is more appropriate on the server, so this isn't an issue with
WinNT 4.0 workstation. Item 4 was left out because it pertains to Microsoft
Office, which clearly isn't part of WinNT 4.0 workstation. Microsoft also states
that they have posted 2 hotfix patches that are in BETA to correct these
problems. They then further state that since these drivers are in BETA, do not
install unless you are experiencing these problems. I didn't have any of these
issues, so I didn't install the patch. In conclusion, Windows NT workstation has
a few minor issues pertaining to the year 2000, but Microsoft promises to have a
Service release available to correct these problems. In the test, only 2 of the
4 given problems were investigated, the other 2 don't affect this operation. For
each set of 'Control Data' a result was given in a table format. From these
numbers it can be shown that WinNT 4.0 passed the test outlined in the year 2000
memo. Microsoft's known problems were addressed as they applied. Since 2 of the
tests didn't apply, they weren't used the other 2 were tested and found that we
were not experiencing these issues. From this I can safely state that in worst
case only a few machines, if any, will be affected by y2k. If we have machines
that are affected, the Service Pack that Microsoft is supposedly releasing
should fix these issues.
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