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| | Year 2000 problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug and the Y2K Bug) was the result of a practice in computer program design that caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after January 1, 2000. | | | It was speculated that computer programs could stop working or produce erroneous results because they stored years with only two digits and that the year 2000 would be represented by 00 and would be interpreted by software as the year 1900. | | | There were no critical problems to begin with, and correcting the few minor mistakes as they occurred would have been the most efficient way to solve the problem. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem
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| | Y2K: YEAR 2000 PROBLEM |
| | The year 2000 date problem was inadvertently created in the late 1950s and early 1960s-the early days of computers and computer programming. | | | The "millennium bug" as the date problem is popularly referred to, resulted from the use of a two-digit year field in computer applications. | | | Two digits, rather than four, were originally used to represent years because in the early days of computer technology, storage and memory were among the highest costs associated with using the emerging technology. |
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http://www.martin.fl.us:7778/GOVT/depts/isd/year2k/problem.html
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| | 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. | | | Encyclopedia: Computers and Computing - Encyclopeadia articles concerning Computers and Computing. | | | Because their designers expected such computer systems to be replaced before the beginning of the year 2000, using a two-digit date was not regarded as a problem. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0853013.html
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| | Universal Year 2000 Problem |
| | The year 2000 problem affects computer hardware, custom-made and packaged software, operating systems, telecommunications, and of course data themselves. | | | The year 2000 problem in computer hardware and software and embedded chips refers to their inability to handle (read, process, write) year 2000 related date information (year, week day, leap year) correctly. | | | Exposure to the year 2000 problem depends of course on the existence of software, hardware and embedded systems that use two-digit dates. |
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http://www.unescap.org/STAT/gc/y2k_06.asp
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| | FHWA - The Year 2000 Computer Problem |
| | The roots of the Year 2000 computer problem date back to the time when data storage on computers was so expensive that it became standard practice to store only the last two digits of the year in computer systems. | | | Another potential Year 2000 problem lies in operational transportation systems such as traffic signal systems run by State and local governments that may also have embedded programs in their hardware and/or software that cannnot correctly handle the Year 2000. | | | The problem now is that years stored as "00" or "01" would be considered to be the years "1900" and "1901" by these older systems. |
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http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/y2k
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| | ComLinks Y2K Archives - The Year 2000 Problem |
| | The Year 2000 problem is not just a hardware or software problem. | | | The scope of this problem extends far beyond the confines of the computer room. | | | The Year 2000 problem is not just another "technology" issue for the folks in the IT Department to sort out. |
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http://www.comlinks.com/legal/tmjb1.htm
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| | Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math |
| | Now that the year 2000 is coming, we have two problems: 1) The data in the computers will be wrong. | | | After the year 2000 the computers will probably think that means 2034 when it really means 1934. | | | For the last 40 years all the dates stored in computers have been missing those two digits. |
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http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52297.html
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| | ComLinks Y2K Archives - Year 2000 FAQ's |
| | The problem owes it's roots to a desperate shortage of expensive memory, and storage capacity in early computers. | | | The average life of a computer system was only 10 years. | | | It is both a hardware and software problem, on virtually every machine and program. |
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http://www.comlinks.com/mag/faq.htm
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| | The "Year 2000 Problem" |
| | The so-called "year 2000 problem" has perplexed banks, insurance companies, government agencies and other institutions dependent on computer data, and some analysts predict the worldwide cost of adjusting computer programs to recognize the new century could be around $650 billion. | | | The problem seems simple enough, but solving it - and it must be solved on an inflexible deadline - will take years. | | | If the "year 2000 problem" demonstrates how the computer age creates its own disasters, Harrington points out that modern technology also provides innovative solutions. |
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http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v5/F13/infotech.html
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| | The Year 2000 Problem in Perspective |
| | The Year 2000 problem is to software providers what the Russian hacker heist of Citibank funds was to computer security providers. | | | For those who may not have heard yet, the "Year 2000" or "Y2K" problem is the problem that many computers and software programs will interpret a date like "10/08/04" as October 8, 1904--rather than the intended October 8, 2004. | | | Immediately after the year 2000 arrives, I suspect that almost every computer glitch that occurs anywhere in the world will be blamed on the Y2K problem, no matter the source of the problem. |
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http://www.aci.net/kalliste/y2000.htm
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| | Year 2000 (Y2K) Problem |
| | This problem exists in any computer system, computer application, or computerized hardware that uses two digits for the year. | | | As the years progress these computer systems see the years as 97, 98, 99, 00, 01... | | | To illustrate this problem here is how computers may calculate an age in the year 2000, for someone who was born in 1945: |
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http://www.bigeye.com/y2kprob.htm
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| | The Year 2000 Computer Problem |
| | The problem with this thinking is that a very large body of computer code developed 20-30 years ago has been maintained and modified, and is still in use today. | | | Several of you have asked about what we are doing as an agency to face the challenges posed for our computer systems as a result of the year 2000 problem. | | | Century leap years occur only if divisible by 400, such as the year 2000, and some computer programs may not recognize this even if they accept dates after January 1, 2000. |
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http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/y2k/mv2units.htm
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| | Howstuffworks "How the Year 2000 Problem Worked" |
| | Until recently, computer programmers have been in the habit of using two digit placeholders for the year portion of the date in their software. | | | The 2-digit year format creates a problem for most programs when "00" is entered for the year. | | | Many programmers used a 2-digit format for the year in their programs, and as a result their date calculations won't produce the right answers on 1/1/2000. |
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http://computer.howstuffworks.com/y2k.htm
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| | Frequently Asked Questions About the Year 2000 Computer Problem |
| | Y2K-related hardware and software problems normally affect all computers or systems made by a particular vendor that have not been patched for the problem unless that system is uniquely configured for the organization. | | | If the problem can be recreated on a separate network then it may be a software related and most likely a local host problem and not be a network based attack. | | | In the case of the latter, the problem may be software related – most likely a local host problem and not a network-based attack. |
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http://www.socp.org/majorinitiatives/cyberth1.html
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| | Year 2000 Problem |
| | The Year 2000 Problem is a known, business problem. | | | Computers, software programs, controller chips embedded in other equipment, and a myriad of other devices will be affected, including those used by you and the companies upon whom you rely to do business. | | | Time is short given that some forward looking devices, such as scheduling and accounting software may fail well before January 2000. |
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http://www.gis.net/~jmullins/year2000.html
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| | Washingtonpost.com: WashTech |
| | The Y2K problem stems from the fact that millions of electronic devices – from mainframe computers that process payroll checks to heart monitors in hospital intensive-care units – were programmed to process only the last two digits of a year, assuming that the first two would be 1 and 9. | | | As a result, a growing cadre of computer experts and business analysts is issuing gloom-and-doom predictions about the state of the world in January 2000. | | | But with those systems – and especially with smaller, specialty devices like heart monitors, the brains of which are contained in a tiny microchip embedded somewhere inside the shoebox-size unit – rooting out every occurrence of the glitch, performing the repairs and testing the fixes is incredibly time-consuming. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/washtech/longterm/y2k/overview.htm
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| | The Year 2000 Problem |
| | The year 2000 will be a problem for many businesses running old accounting programs on old mainframe computers (there are many other areas affected as well). | | | This is because programmers were squeezing data into these systems long ago and only stored the last two digits of years in the files (mm/dd/yy). | | | The older software will not calculate the difference between years correctly, completely messing up the math. |
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http://www.wdell.com/support/year2000.html
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| | Salon 21st: A glitch in time |
| | Is your computer ready for the year 2000? | | | And throwing hordes of programmers at the problem at the last minute is likely to be worse than useless. | | | It will do you no good to shop at a "year 2000 compliant" supermarket if its distributors' computers have gone kaput and the shelves are bare. |
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http://archive.salon.com/21st/books/1998/03/cov_02books.html
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| | The Year 2000 Problem |
| | The Year 2000 Information Center is one of the earliest and most comprehensive sites. | | | Here's a summary of the Year 2000 problem and some of its implications. | | | and an outline for evaluating the Year 2000 problem. |
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http://www.cob.sfasu.edu/rgriffith/rgy2k.htm
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| | The Year 2000 Problem |
| | The reason for this is that the computer software only stores the last two digits of the year. | | | The fix is usually fast and easy since, more often than not, the problem is traced to human error and not the system itself. | | | Here are a few examples of what could happen starting January 1, 2000, as various computers are affected by this problem. |
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http://www.asksharon.com/help/y2k.html
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| | The Year 2000 Problem |
| | First, consider what types of organizations might have this problem: (a) Government organizations who haven't upgraded their computer software for a long time, and (b) small companies who haven't upgraded their computer software for a long time. | | | People who don't understand computers and the way dates are stored on computers are worried about the unknown. | | | The ATC computer system was supposed to have been completely replaced years ago. |
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http://rwebster.com/Y2K.htm
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| | Year 2000 Bookmarks |
| | The Year 2000 problem will require a new emphasis on software quality if our efforts are to produce reliable programs at the turn of the century. | | | Common wisdom states that the Year 2000 problem is primarily a project management problem. | | | One of the most surprising aspects of the Year 2000 problem is the fact that current software products will not necessarily work in the 21st century. |
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http://pw1.netcom.com/~ggirod/bookmark.html
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| | Year 2000 |
| | This is to remind you that some computer systems and software applications currently used in medical devices, including embedded microprocessors, may experience problems beginning January 1, 2000 due to their use of two-digit fields for date representation. | | | For computer-controlled design, production and quality control processes, manufacturers should assure that two-digit date formats or computations do not cause problems beginning January 1, 2000. | | | The following information should help answer questions about premarket submission requirements relating to year-2000 changes: |
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http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/yr2000.html
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| | The Alaska Year 2000 Problem |
| | The problem is caused by computer programs that look ahead a year or more. | | | Community Planning for the Year 2000 Computer Problem (Santa Cruz model) | | | Any program that engages in a time based look ahead may be subject to these kinds of problems. |
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http://www.disastercenter.com/alaska/y2k.htm
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| | MIT Project Year 2000 Index Page |
| | Click here to go to the new MIT Year 2000 Project Home Page. | | | Please contact y2k-help@mit.edu so that we can update any remaining links to this page |
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| | Y2K: The Year 2000 Problem |
| | These are electrical engineers addressing a complex problem. | | | This page provides links to sites around the internet that I have found with useful information on the Year 2000 Problem. | | | Capers Jones' Article on the Costs and Consequences of the Year 2000 Problem |
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http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/y2k1/y2k.htm
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| | Year 2000 Problem |
| | The British Computer Society (A good overview of the problem.) | | | Florida State Government tackles the year 2000 problem | | | Year.2000.com (Offering the best explanation and the longest list of related links.) |
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http://www.leon.k12.fl.us/DistrictServer/Technology/year2000.html
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| | YEAR 2000 PROBLEM |
| | The Year 2000 Problem (Y2K) concentrates on what will happen to technological devices, such as computers, running on an internal clock when January 1st, 2000 rolls around. | | | Many experts believe that these internal clocks will read the new date as the year "1900", thus causing a severe breakdown in the field of technology. | | | This web page is a simple project, put together by the above mentioned MIS 302 students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, during the 1998 Fall semester. |
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http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/ceickholt/page2.html
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| | Year 2000 Computer Problem |
| | The Commission has asked all SROs to report on their preparatory programs and is conducting follow-up reviews. | | | The Commission also has asked SRO auditors to include a Year 2000 readiness inquiry in their FCM inspections and to share with the Year 2000 Task Force of the Futures Industry Association and report to SRO management and the Commission any concerns with respect to the Year 2000 readiness of the members they inspect. | | | The Commission is aware that government agencies and self-regulatory organizations (SROs) have efforts ongoing to raise awareness of the potential Year 2000 problem and that many futures commission merchants (FCMs) and other Commission registrants have begun to address this issue. |
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http://www.cftc.gov/opa/press97/opaadv55-97.htm
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