While this mainly applies to systems resident in University facilities, any such software used at home should also be assessed. We recommend visiting the appropriate vendor's web site, or contacting the vendor directly, for compliance information regarding your current release, or any upgrades which are necessary. The fifth area is the data within all applications themselves . An example of this is spreadsheet software. Use of two-digit years in spreadsheets might be ambiguous, or misinterpreted by certain spreadsheet applications available on the market, especially if data is interchanged between different spreadsheet products.
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This will remove ambiguities, but carries some disadvantages, such as having to reformat existing spreadsheets and databases for the extra year digits. This setting, by itself, will not ensure Y2K compliance of your PC, applications, and data. This information is written for the computer novice, but provides a good general overview. Questions regarding University-owned equipment in homes should first go to your Tier One departmental support personnel. This file contains the HTML code for the footer information to be included on every page.