year 2000 problem
Y2K computing crisis
The year 2000 problem was a computing flaw stemming from the widespread practice of representing years with only two digits, raising fears that systems would malfunction when "99" rolled over to "00" and was interpreted as 1900.
Massive remediation efforts preceded January 1, 2000, and the anticipated catastrophic failures largely failed to materialize.
Also called Y2K, the millennium bug.
- millennium bugDate-coding flaw in software
- fixesRepairs or solutions
- Y2KCalendar-rollover computer problem
- softwarePrograms directing computer operations
- errorFault in communication
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year 2000 problemhardware failure
mechanical breakdown · power outage · power surge damage · server crash · hard drive crash
year 2000 problemzero-day exploit
Unpatched security vulnerability attack
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