At 02:06 AM 12/13/99 -0500, you wrote: >I discovered that the "date >setting" on my machine leaves it vulnerable. What is the vulnerability? A "short date" is just a display format for the date, and 01/01/00 is just as valid as 01/01/2000 for that purpose. If there are applications that request a "short date" and you make the change you suggest, it's likely to read just the number of characters it was expecting and get 01/01/20 (and think today is 12/13/19). I don't know if there actually are any applications that are fed the "short date" format. Also I'm not sure what this has to do with copyright, so I'll copyright this message: Copyright 1999, Glenn Randers-Pehrson Permission is granted to anyone to copy this message in part or in its entirety, without fee, provided that this copyright notice is not removed or altered. Glenn