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millennium bug

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millennium bug: see Year 2000 problem Year 2000 problem, Y2K problem, or millennium bug, in computer science, a design flaw in the hardware or software of a computer that caused erroneous results when working with dates beyond Dec. 31, 1999.
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Y2K bug

 or Year 2000 bug or millennium bug

Potential problem in computers and computer networks at the beginning of the year 2000. Until the 1990s, most computer programs used only the last two digits to designate the year, the first two digits being fixed at 19. As the year 2000 approached, many programs had to be partly rewritten or replaced to prevent interpretation of “00” as 1900 rather than 2000. It was feared that such a misreading would lead to software and hardware failures in computers used in such important areas as banking, utilities systems, government records, and so on, with the potential for widespread chaos on and following Jan. 1, 2000. Up to $200 billion may have been spent (half in the U.S.) to upgrade computers and application programs to be Y2K-compliant. Despite international alarm, few major failures occurred, partly because these measures were effective and partly because the likely incidence of failure was exaggerated.


Millennium Bug

See Y2K Problem.


millennium bug
Computing any software problem arising from the change in date at the start of the 21st century

millennium bug - Year 2000


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The more hysterical among them fretted that the Millennium Bug would erase as much as 500 years of material progress.
Government agencies and businesses have been converting their computers in anticipation of the so-called millennium bug, which may cause computers to fail as the date rolls over to the year 2000 because they only recognize the last two digits in years and don't distinguish between 1900 and 2000.
Action 2000, the government group created to dole cut advice on how to combat the millennium bug, has sent 26 million homes a copy of What Everyone Should Know About the Millennium Bug One thing they should know, according to Action 2000: The U.
 
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