OL97: Printing Outlook 97 Calendar Displays Year as 2099

When you try to print a Calendar item with a past date within the year 1999, the year gets set to 2099 in Microsoft Outlook 97.

For example:

If the date today is February 1, 1999 and you print anything from 1/1/1999 to 1/31/1999, the date gets set to 2099.

When you view the item in Print Preview, the incorrect year will be displayed as well.

Printing a date range in 1998 prints correctly.

To resolve this problem, install the Microsoft Office 97 SR-2 Update. You can download the update from the following URL:

Dates before the window that Outlook uses (-29/+70 years) will also exhibit this behavior, even after the update is applied.

While the update must be applied to bring Outlook up to Y2K compliance, a workaround is to switch the Regional Settings, Date Style, to display years using four digits.

For additional information about the Microsoft Office 97 SR-2 Patch, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: