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Windows 95 Year 2000 Problems with DATE and DIR Commands

Article ID:182967
Last Review:May 28, 2007
Revision:1.3
This article was previously published under Q182967

SYMPTOMS

You may experience either of the following symptoms:

The DIR command displays file dates using only two digits to represent the year, instead of four digits.
When you use the DATE command to set the current date and you type the year as only two digits from 00 through 79, the DATE command displays the error message "Incorrect date format."

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RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, type the year using four digits when you set the date to 1/1/2000 or later using the DATE command.

To resolve this issue, obtain and install the Windows 95 Year 2000 Update. Microsoft also recommends that you obtain and install the Windows 95 Year 2000 Corporate Update. For additional information about these updates, please see the "References" section in this article.

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MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about the Windows 95 Year 2000 Update, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
225050 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/225050/EN-US/) Availability of the Windows 95 Year 2000 Update

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APPLIES TO
Microsoft Windows 95

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