Microsoft KB Archive/218209

= Contact date 5 years in the future appears as wrong year in Outlook =

Article ID: 218209

Article Last Modified on 1/24/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
 * Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q218209



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 that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

Additional query words: 2000 OL2K

Keywords: kbbug kbnofix KB218209

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