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Y2K is a numeronym and was the common abbreviation for the year 2000 software problem. The abbreviation combines the letter Y for "year", the number 2 and a capitalized version of k for the SI unit prefix kilo meaning 1000; hence, 2K signifies 2000.
The term year 2000 problem, or simply Y2K, refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000. Many programs represented four-digit years with only the final two digits, making the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900.
After a news conference, Rep. Stephen Horn, R-Calif., chairman of Government Management, Information & Technology, examines a chart showing his grades for each agency's progress on the Y2K ...
The year 2038 problem (also known as Y2038, [1] Y2K38, Y2K38 superbug or the Epochalypse [2] [3]) is a time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable to represent times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.
The Year 2000 computer problem has become a punchline in recent years, but the CrowdStrike outage shows the joke's on us.
In December 1999 Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering named him one of the ten most influential people in the software field. [ 3 ] In the late 1990s, Yourdon became the center of controversy over his beliefs that Y2K -related computer problems could result in severe software failures that would culminate in widespread social ...
The outage, which apparently stemmed from a faulty software update from security provider CrowdStrike, set off a chain reaction that took down PCs and servers at airlines, TV stations, banks ...
Some products, such as Microsoft Excel 95 used a window of years 1920–2019 which had the potential to encounter a windowing bug reoccurring only 20 years after the year 2000 problem had been addressed. [7] The IBM i operating system uses a window of 1940-2039 for date formats with a two-digit year. [8]