Shawn asks:
>      has anyone heard of this or have an explanation?  I am doing some
>      cross platform Y2K stuff, and people are saying "oh, we're ok because
>      we use smalldatetime", which is supposed to be good till around 2070.

SMALLDATETIME is an SQL datatype implemented by Sybase [and possibly other
RDBMS systems].  STFW for details.  Altavista found 850 instances of
"smalldatetime" for me.

G.