millennium bug

 

 

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millennium bug

1. (computing) A design flaw in computer systems that represented years as two digits (e.g. 84 for 1984), which could cause date calculations to fail if they involved years later than 1999.
   • 2018 June 7, Lizzy Buchan, “Boris Johnson says Trump could handle Brexit better and warns of ’meltdown’ in explosive leaked recording”, in The Independent‎^[1], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-07:

     Mr Johnson also said the Northern Irish border row had been blown out of proportion and compared fears over disruption over vital goods coming into the UK to "pure millennium bug stuff".

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• year 2000 problem

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