Stands for the year 2000. Because of the way some computer programs were written, some people thought that computers all over the world would turn their clocks back to the year 0 or 1900 when we started the year 2000. Some people even thought this would cause mass chaos all over the world. People worked on making computers "Y2K compliant" so it didn't happen.
An abbreviation for the Year 2000, identified by many technologically savvy individuals as the point when many critical computer systems will experience operational problems. The extent of these problems is a subject of heated debate within the computer industry.
Year 2000. The Y2K bug was one of the biggest hoaxes in history. The actual effect of this supposed problem was microscopic compared to what the analysts predicted.
Year 2000. The year that many computers could have developed problems because of lack of foresight on the part of programmers. In the 1980s and before, most computer programs were designed to store only the last two digits of the years on all dates. After the Year 2000, these programs would have shown dates of two figures such as 00, which may be interpreted the same as 1900. This discrepancy could have caused widespread problems, especially in the large computer systems used in government and big industries without the necessary Y2K fixes.
The year 2000, an impending problem for software that stores years as two ASCII digits (as in the string "63"). This particular problem has been generating a great deal of excitement (money to be made), fear (problems) and loathing (lawsuits) lately.
Simply means Year 2000, but among corporate and government echelons was known as a dreaded Y2K "bug". It was feared that older computers (of special concern were the ones running in government agencies and financial establishments) would incorrectly interpret the last 2 digits of 2000 as 1900, causing a national or even worldwide mayhem.
The "Year 2000" problem. The problem dates back to the 1960s, when programmers wrote applications using a standard date format of DD/MM/YY to conserve then expensive storage space. When 2000 arrives, the "2000" will be read by older computer systems as "00," potentially causing a complete system failure or producing incorrect calculations in time-sensitive programs.
reference to Year 2000 (2K)
raised questions for anyone who depended on a program in which the year was represented by a two-digit number, such as "97" for 1997. Many programs written years ago (when storage limitations encouraged such information economies) are still being used. The problem was that when the two-digit space allocated for "99" rolled over to 2000, the next number was "00." Frequently, program logic assumes that the year number gets larger, not smaller - so "00" was anticipated to wreak havoc in a program that hadn't been modified to account for the millennium.
Year 2000. The Year 2000 problem was the possibility that financial institutions' computer systems would fail on 1 January 2000 and spark a loss of public confidence in individual institutions or at worst, in the financial system as a whole. In the event, the arrival of Y2K was virtually incident-free.
Refers to the Year 2000. It is often associated with a computer software problem frequently referred to as the Y2K bug. This is the inability of software to recognize dates greater than December 31, 1999 .
the Year 2000. Y2K issues were concerns regarding the turnover of the date from 1999 to 2000. Y2K bug referred to widespread concerns that computer programs would not recognise the 2000 date
The year 2000 (also known as "Y2K") raised questions for anyone who depended on a program in which the year was represented by a two-digit number, such as "97" for 1997.
Y2K is short for Year 2000. Many companies relied upon software that wasn't intended to still be in use by Jan. 2000. These programs weren't written to handle dates later than December 31, 1999. Many people feared that these programs would crash when the new year began January 1, 2000. Companies expended millions to bring their software up to date. Whether due to luck or these efforts, very little happened when Y2K began.
An abbreviation for Year 2000. The Y2K problem resulted from the use of two-digit year fields in computer software codes and silicon chip technology. Because of this, the software or chip cannot recognize "00" as the year 2000 instead of 1900 or doesn’t recognize it at all.
