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From: Dlkgen(a)aol.com <Dlkgen(a)aol.com>
To: OHVANWER-L(a)rootsweb.com <OHVANWER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 9:17 AM
Subject: [OHVANWER-L] [OHGEN-L] Y2K for your PC
Hi All,
This came through another list, and I thought it might add to your Happy
New Year.
> List, this simple, easy correction to your PC regional settings is
> probably worth making -- [stolen from the Arkansas GS list]. You lucky
> Mac users are already safe, I understand.
>
> >> Have you done this simple correction on your PC to be ready for Year
> 2000?
> >>
> >> You must change the "short date style"
> >>
> >> A setting located in Windows' Control Panel allows the system to use
> a
> >> two-digit or four-digit year as the Windows default for "short date
> >> style." This is the format that many software applications use as
> their
> >> default date format.
> >>
> >> To avoid problems that may result with a two-digit year upon the
> change
> >> from 1999 to 2000, each user needs to change the short date style to
> >> indicate a four-digit year.
> >>
> >> Windows `95
> >> 1) Click the Start button once.
> >> 2) Go to Settings, then click Control Panel once.
> >> 3) Double click the Regional Settings icon.
> >> 4) Click the Date tab at the top once.
> >> 5) For the short date style make sure that MM/dd/yyyy is
> selected.
> >> 6) Make sure that the long date style also has a yyyy format.
> >> 7) Click the Apply button, then the OK button.
> >>
> >> Windows for Workgroups 3.11 or Windows 3.1
> >> 1) Double click the Main group icon.
> >> 2) Double click the Control Panel icon.
> >> 3) Double click the International icon.
> >> 4) In the Date Format box click the Change button.
> >> 5) Put an X in the century box.
> >> 6) In the current window, click the OK button.
> >> 7) Click the OK button in the International Settings window.
>
Don Kear
Van Wert Ohio County Coordinator,
www.rootsweb.com/~ohvanwer/
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