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millennium bug
(gcide) | millennium bug \mil*len"ni*um bug`\ (m[i^]l*l[e^]n"n[i^]*[u^]m
b[u^]g`), n. (Computers)
An error in the coding of certain computer programs which
store the year component of the date as two digits, assuming
that the first two digits are 19, rather than as a complete
number of four digits; when such programs are used after
January 1, 2000, the date may be misinterpreted, causing
serious errors or total failure of the program; -- called
also year 2000 bug, year 2000 problem and Y2K bug.
Note: In the several years leading up to the year 2000, large
corporations and other users of computers in total
spent many billions of dollars correcting this error in
the programs they use.
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millennium bug
(foldoc) | Year 2000
century meltdown
millennium bug
millennium meltdown
Y2K
(Y2K, or "millennium bug") A common name for all
the difficulties the turn of the century, or dates in general,
bring to computer users.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the turn of the century looked so
remote and memory/disk was so expensive that most programs
stored only the last two digits of the year. These produce
surprising results when dealing with dates after 1999. They
may believe that 1 January 2000 is before 31 December 1999
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