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Hold that millenium, please! It seems that our forebears were more capable of determining the end of a century than are we with the aid of 750 MHZ Pentium Acceleron processor chips. A recent program on the PBS channel regarding America in 1900 stated that the beginning of the 20th century was heralded with great fanfare and throngs of people. And when did the celebration take place? Would you believe December 31, 1900? Our anticipation of the new millenium is 12 months premature! And while I'm up here on this soap box; a few words about the millenium bug. It is neither millenium related nor is it a bug. It has to due with the century rollover (not the end of the century... see above). If this were 1899 we would have the same problem, thus it is century related and not millenium related. A computer program bug is a failure to operate as designed. These programs were designed with 2-digit years and work correctly in that time frame. This phenomenon could more accurately be described as a century break design flaw. Ken Rowland