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Yo, Everyone. I might as well throw in my two millennium cents worth. If a child is born one second after midnight, next January first--year 2000--How old will it be at one second after midnight the following January first? By my calculation, it will be one year old. Zeros, no matter how many of them you string together, amount to nothing. You can't be born in the year nothing. There never was a year 0000. There was a starting point when the calendar register was on 0000, but the register began moving immediately, and after it had been running for 365 days, the register indicated 0001. So there! I predict that the clocking in of the year two thousand will be the most gigantic non-event of our generation. The sun, moon and planets will orbit on schedule, the tides will ebb and flow as usual, the swallows will arrive at Capistrano as is their habit, and so on and so on. The only effect of this make believe crisis will be felt on assorted computers that have not had their inner workings attended to. It does pose a huge question in my mind though: How on earth could the thousands of brilliant minds that conceived and built the whole computer world as we know it, have been so dumb as to not have foreseen the year 2000 bearing down on them? Tell me that, eh. Cheers. Paul Jones.