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The Y2K Problem
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What is Y2k? In one sentence, Y2k is "...the inability of computer programs at the year 2000 to interpret the correct century from a recorded or calculated date having only two digits to indicate the year".[Center for Computer Systems Engineering]
What does that mean? It means that many of our comp ....
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....ht send the negative age to another program (which might then fail); or it might omit the sign from the number and pass your age off as 58. The last example is the most insidious, as 58 is not an unreasonable value for an age. It's wrong in this case, but it could easily be propagated throughout other systems without being detected.
Why should I care? The good news is that Y2k is almost completely limited to computer hardware and software. The bad news is that, these days, computer hardware and .... |
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