Immortal? Protect Your Mac from Y10K

Maybe. There seems to be some uncertainty about whether this will actually solve the possible problem of Y10K (that we will all face in the big changeover of the future from 9999 to 10000) or simply add a 0 at the beginning of the display of the year on your Mac. In any case, this how-to shows you " how to teach your Mac running under OS X Tiger to display the system time (e.g. in Mail) as 02005 instead of just 2005." This doesn't involve any actual hacking, just some minor manipulation of Tiger's custom time display settings, but it is still pretty cool if you like 0s before your date, I guess.

Alternately, you could change that lead number to a 4 and tell everyone that you come from the future where everyone uses Macintosh, Windows was destroyed at the battle of Infinite Loop in the OS wars of 2247 when Steve Jobs' clone destroyed Robot Bill Gates with an oscillating laser bazooka, and, by the way, Apple machines no longer run on either PPC or Intel, but rather, on bread alone.

[via BoingBoing]