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.