Now, first off, there is no truth in people thinking pace makers and microwaves will suddenly die when the clock turns to the new millennium. In fact, real problems may be few and far between for the home PC user. Most people's home computer doesn't care what the date is. You can stop your computer at the startup and go into the BIOS to test this by placing the date anywhere on the calendar and nothing different should happen. You can also double click on the clock in the lower right part of the screen in Win95 or NT and adjust the clock there as well to any date from 1980 to 2099, and again, the computer should keep right on working. I say should because according to Microsoft, there are a few possible know bugs with some versions of NT. You should check out Microsoft's Knowledge Base at MS Windows Updates and MS Y2K to see if your version of NT needs a patch to fix the Y2K problem for either the operating system or MS Word in NT.
Now, what about AutoCAD working? Will it die or will it live? Will you be able to print out your latest drawing? Well, why wouldn't it work? It wouldn't work for some reason if it were dependent upon dates. The only part of AutoCAD that is dependent upon dates is really the file saving system, which, according to Autodesk is compliant with Y2K. It doesn't care about the date. In fact, almost every program you are likely to have doesn't care what the date is. The programs never look at the date. However, if you feel more comfortable hearing this directly for Autodesk, take a look at Autodesk Year 2000 and see the list of all of Autodesk's software that is Y2K compliant. However, you should note that Autodesk does state that there may be problems with some of your 3rd party software working and that you should check with each company to be sure. Now, in all reality, unless the software uses dating for some usage, you shouldn't need to worry about it.
