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Essay Galaxy - The Y2K Problem The Y2K Problem!!!

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 computer systems, although sensitive to date and time, have been programmed with a piece missing -- the century portion of the date. These systems were created by humans, who are used to dealing with dates in context using a shorthand that omits the century. (What car do you drive? A '92 Ford, or a '96 Chevy. When did you graduate? Class of '76.) Unfortunately, when the calendar rolls over from 1999 to 2000, such systems will not have the contextual smarts to process our shorthand dates correctly. Some of thes....

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