Y2K - the Millenium Bug

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The Y2K problem, the year 2000 bug, and the millenium bug are all different names for the same major problem that all computers face once the clock strikes midnight, January 1, 2000. Some say that it is only a minor glitch, yet some experts refer to it as "Armageddon." The problem stems from old systems which store the year portion of dates in two-digit form (i.e.: 1997 is stored as "97"). Years ago, COBOL programmers used this approach …

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