Now it’s time to explore the technical issues involved with the Visual Basic language and various other date handling issues—the nuts and bolts of the Year 2000 problem. The structure of this section will be less apparent than that of the last because the areas that need to be addressed cover a much wider scope. In addition to examining the Visual Basic date type intrinsic functions, you’ll need to cross-reference those functions against each of the last three major releases of Visual Basic (versions 3, 4, and 5), and where appropriate, you’ll need to cross-reference again against the various data types that those functions will act on (String, Variant, Date, and so on).