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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. ..... Click the link for more information. . Y2K bugor Year 2000 bug or millennium bugPotential 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 BugSee Y2K Problem. millennium bug Computing any software problem arising from the change in date at the start of the 21st century
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However, millennium bugs are biting hard in various European venues. Since 1997, banks have worked to solve potential millennium bugs while federal regulators monitored their progress. The Intelliquis Y2K test disk allows users to test key elements of their computer's hardware, software and operating systems for Millennium bugs, which can be repaired by upgrading to either the IntelliFIX 2000(TM) standard or PRO versions. |
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