Information system managers are all abuzz about the millenium. They have
looked into the future, and forecast widespread disaster for the year 2000.


You can forcast the fate of your own system by setting the clock to 11:55
p.m. on December 31, 1999, shutting down for ten minutes, and re-booting.

When you alter a file, what date does the system assign to the change? If
you sort newly-altered files by date of change, how do they stack up? If
you have a spreadsheet or accounting program, how many days does it say
have elapsed between records that span the centuries (which really don't
change until 2001, I know).

If you use an accession or catalog numbering system that uses the last two
digits of the year, will you now start over with 00?

The Macintosh survives the turnover, once the clock is manually reset to
the year 2000. DOS, I have heard, bombs irretrievably. Has anyone tried it
on the many incarnations of Windows?


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        Jim Swanson            Digital Banff
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