Schedule+ Four-Digit Year Entries Require All Four Digits (197195)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Schedule+ for Windows 7.0
  • Microsoft Schedule+ for Windows 7.0a
This article was previously published under Q197195

SYMPTOMS

In Schedule+, if you type a two-digit date in a four-digit date field, Schedule+ assumes that the date is in the twentieth century (1900s).

CAUSE

Schedule+ does not support a two-digit year entry when the short date style is set to a four-digit year such as MM/dd/yyyy.

MORE INFORMATION

To Set the Short Date Style

  1. Click Start, point to Settings, and click Control Panel.
  2. In Control Panel, click Regional Settings, and click the Date tab.
  3. Under Short date, click to select the date style from the Short date style list.
  4. Click OK to apply the settings.
When the short date style is set to display a 2-digit year, the Schedule+ user interface allows only 2-digit entries. All such entries are parsed into 1980 through 2079. When you set the short date style to display a 4-digit year, the user interface allows only 4-digit entries. With this setting, if you type a 4-digit entry there is no ambiguity. If you type a 2-digit entry with the user interface prompting for a 4-digit entry, those 2-digit entries will display as 00xx, and when the focus changes to another field they display as 19xx.

For example, you set the short date style to MM/dd/yyyy. The Schedule+ user interface shows a 4-digit box for years. You type only a 2-digit year, 23. In the user interface, you see 0023 because you did not supply the other 2 digits. When the focus changes to another field, you see that Schedule+ turns the 0023 to 1923. If this is not the year you intended, you can change it by typing all 4 digits. All of this is displayed in the user interface so that it does not mislead you into thinking the 2-digit entry meant something else.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:6/24/2004
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