I'm sick of hearing that this proble occured because people were trying to save bytes. I was doing COBOL programming in the 70's, I probably wrote code that would have y2k problems, and saving bytes had nothing to do with it. The problem arises simply because people (programmers included) normally write dates in the format "mm/dd/yy", as in 12/31/99. Not just in computer programs, but in normal, day-to-day lives. It's that simple, and that is all that there is to it. Barry Watzman