Your suggestion of how to check your computer is valid, however many computers might come up with the 4 digit year until you reboot and then they might not recognize the 4 digit year and think it is 1980. So to double check, change the date to 2001 as suggested and then reboot your computer and then check to date again. Afterwards change the date back to the right date. If it comes up with what you typed in you are likely to be okay, however it it is wrong then you will likely need to upgrade your BIOS on your computer. And on some of the older computers there might not be an upgrade. One other thing to consider is that turn of the century years are not normally leap years, February only as 28 days instead of 29, but 2000 is a leap year. I think the way that is figured is if the turn of the century year can be evenly divided by 400 it is a leap year and February has 29 days, if not February only has 28 days. And some computers might have problems with that next year as well. The problem would be that if February 29th is on a Tuesday, your computer would think that it would be March 1st and a Tuesday. And from then on out you date, even if you reset it, would always be one day of the week off. i.e. If Feb. 29 is on Tuesday, your computer would think it is March 1, also being a Tuesday and what should be March 1st would be March 2nd on a Wednesday and even if you reset your computer to the right day of the month, the day of the week would not be correct. Those are the hardware issues, software, including your operating system, might have problems with Y2K as well. If you are wondering about whether your software is complainent, see if the software company has a web page and if it does it might have on it whether or not the software will have problems and if they have a fix, which might be a free downloadable upgrade or whether you will have to buy the latest release. Roger Dellinger [email protected] wrote: > > Carla- > Start at the beginning with a "C" prompt and type in "date"..Set it > ahead for 2001. See if the answer has a four digit year. . Be sure to set > it back when you get done. IF YOU GET ONLY A 2 digit year see you > computer tecnician. In some cases it won't make any difference. Check all > your programs and set the clock ahead and see what comes up > Chances are that if the computer clock is ok then everything else will > be. > I am open to other suggestions. Any program that uses only two digit year > is suspect..