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The Y2K Problem
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....erpret 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 computer systems, although sensitive to date and time, have been programmed with a piece missing -- the century portion of t.... Part 2 of Paper
....late your age as 99 minus 58, or 41. That's fine, but what happens when the century rolls over to '20' in the year 2000? In this program, the year will appear as '00' but the century will still be assumed to be '19' -- so the program will calculate your age as 00 minus 58, or -58. Then, depending on the program's error-handling capacity, it might abnormally end or otherwise stop running; or it might send the negative age to another program (which might then fail); or it might omit the sign from .... |
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