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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 01:25 AM 1/1/00 -0800, ralph diaz wrote: 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 got my first email address in 1984 ( hpda!hpdsla!johnf ). About that time I also starting reading Usenet and became the usenet administrator. All newsgroups names began with net. and it actually quite easy to read every article in every newsgroup posted on a given day. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 01:25 AM 1/1/00 -0800, Ralph wrote: >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. <snip> It's blowing 35 knots today and I partied till 5:00 am this morning - up at 9:00 am. My computer is actually working and civilization did not fall apart! Not sure if my body feels together, however, for my annual New Year's paddle. Anyway... This may or may not help people's weird looking new millenium dates as shown by your reginal settings: Here is the URL for the Win95 update. The "Download" for the file is at the bottom, down load it to a dir EG: C:\JUNK and then log out and execute it. Pat http://www.microsoft.com/Windows95/downloads/contents/WURecommended/S_WUFeatured/win95y2k/Default.asp *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 01:25 AM 1/1/00 -0800, ralph diaz wrote: >(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.) We've had one of our 3.1 machines at work set a year ahead for over a year, and the file manager bug is the only thing that's turned up. However, it's easy to fix. I don't have the url, but get on the microsoft page and search out a file named "wfwfilup.exe". Download it, follow the instructions, and that'll clear up the problem. -- Wes *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Wes Boyd wrote: > > At 01:25 AM 1/1/00 -0800, ralph diaz wrote: > > >(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.) > > We've had one of our 3.1 machines at work set a year ahead for over a year, > and the file manager bug is the only thing that's turned up. However, it's > easy to fix. I don't have the url, but get on the microsoft page and search > out a file named "wfwfilup.exe". Download it, follow the instructions, and > that'll clear up the problem. Thanks, I had downloaded these files a few weeks ago in two versions (for my wife's 3.1 Windows for Workgroups, which is the file you refer to, and my plain ole 3.1). When I saw the glitch in File Manager after midnite on 1/1/:0 I used those downloaded files on both machines and it cleared File Manager's reporting to read 1/1/00. ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
>> 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 received an e-mail this weekend dated 1-2-100! I don't know why it wasn't in Latin. Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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