The Millennium Bug

The y2k problem, "The year 2000 problem" has often been called the millennium bug because of is timing. The problem is basically that software authors have been saving only part of the year in their programs and data bases. (In the early 1980's, programming classes were told of this problem. Since the average life of software was 15 years at the time, one might think we would be better prepared.)

There are many solutions to the y2k problem. Here are some

In some sense this really the century bug. Why? Answer