OL2000: Contact Date 5 Years in the Future Appears as Wrong Year

ID: Q218209

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Outlook 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you type a date into either the Birthday or Anniversary field in an Outlook contact using the format, mm/dd/yy, and the date is five years or more into the future, the year selected by the calendar control is incorrect.

CAUSE

The algorithm used by the date parser in the Contact item looks five years into the future. For example, if the current year is 1999, "02" parses to the year 2002, but "06" becomes 1906.

RESOLUTION

Use one of the following methods to ensure the intended date is used.

Method 1

Use the format, mm/dd/yyyy, to type the year as a four-digit number instead of two digits.

Method 2

Click the arrow adjacent to the Birthday or Anniversary field to use the calendar control to select the desired date.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: 2000 OL2K

Keywords : kbdta
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug