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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 ...
Ready for any Y2K scenarios, Sam and Ria Skemp and the pet Chihuahua, Rattel, are ready to celebrates the New Year on Dec. 31, 1999, at home with party and all of the things they bought for Y2K ...
From Y2K accessories to reliving the grunge 90s, here’s what Gen Z romanticizes from years past — try not to get too nostalgic. For Gen Z, everything old is new again. From Y2K accessories to ...
The Y2K issue was a major topic of discussion in the late 1990s and as such showed up in much popular media. A number of "Y2K disaster" books were published such as Deadline Y2K by Mark Joseph. Movies such as Y2K: Year to Kill capitalized on the currency of Y2K, as did numerous TV shows, comic strips, and computer games.
As part of Y2K compliance work that was carried out in 1998, the CRTL was modified to use unsigned 32-bit integers to represent time; extending the range of time_t up to 7 February 2106. [30] PostgreSQL since version 7.2, released 2002-02-04, stores timestamp WITHOUT TIMEZONE as 64-bit.
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.
Washington was also the world's largest Y2K command center despite GMT being the coordinated time zone. In Havre de Grace, Maryland, a spoof of the New York ball drop using an eight-foot long, five-foot high wood-and-plastic foam lit duck instead of a ball was started to celebrate the millennium and has been done again every year since.
Y2K was just one of many times people got it wrong. But sometimes, predictions do come true. Aged Like Wine is an online community where people share "things that have stood the test of time."