[Paddlewise] Y2K also known as MM to us Latins

If you have not fixed your BIOS or RTC (Real Time Clock) or anything
related to the Y2k or MM (in Roman years) problem in your operating
system such as Windows or DOS, your email will wind up stacking up in
strange places in other people's email inboxes.

I opened up my email just now (after watching a spectacular fireworks
display in Central Park just a block from my home that seemed right over
head).  I noticed that I was supposed to have 7 messages. but could only
see 4 at the bottom of my email list (I do tend to leave items sitting
in my inbox after I have read them).  I thought perhaps some of the
messages were from west of me, i.e. West Coast or Hawaii time.  But when
I scrolled up I could not find any.  Finally I scrolled up to the top of
my email inbox and found that two (from the same person) were from 1983
(!) and another was from 1980!  Geez, I didn't know anyone had email
back then!!!! :-)

I know that one of the suggested fixes for Y2K was to just re-set the
computer clock at 1980.  All well and good if you live in isolation in
just the internal world of your computer.  BUT if you have to
communicate with the outside world via email etc. you will wind up in
some strange places in other people's inboxes.  And who knows what other
dysfunctional ramifications are/will result.

My email I know is showing the right date (I just exchanged email with
my wife to her computer).

(The only thing a bit askew in my machine is that in File Manager (I am
a Win 3.1 holdout); it is showing a file I created just now as dated
1/01/:1 but it does queue up okay.  Maybe my fix wasn't enough to get
\00 but I did find a fix yesterday to do something to fix File Manager
and I will experiment with it later.  For now, \:1 is as good as \00 for
purposes of internally sorting files.)

Happy New Millenium to all. The old wish is "that you live in
interesting times"...I think we all are.

For you own communication integrity, do fix your computer date.

happy paddling in MM,

ralph


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