Re: Year 2000/2038 compliance problem

[Eric Hildum]

> Hmm. Do you really want the "Sent" to show as "Wednesday, April 11, 2001"?
> That's what using the 'long format' will do. Entourage can only be smart
> enough to show every user - whether you be American, British, Swedish,
> whatever - the short date format you've set in the Date & Time control panel
> m/d/yy or dd/mm/yy or yyyy.mm.dd because it accesses the short format there,
> which restricts it to 2039 for the moment. If they switch to the long
> format, they either have to show it in the long format, or impose a
> "standard" version of short format which will upset millions of people who
> use a different short format and complaints about MS dictating things, or
> maybe they could implement their own short format which would probably
> create all sorts of conflicts with the OS.
Actually, I think you are talking about a slightly different long format
than I. I am referring to the API data structure, not the display format.
-- 
Eric Hildum 


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