The term year 2000 problem, [1] 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. Computer systems' inability to distinguish ...

千年虫，又叫做“计算机2000年问题”“电脑千禧年千年虫问题”或“千年危机”。 缩写为“ Y2K ”。 是指在某些使用了计算机 程序 的 智能系统 （包括 计算机系统 、自动控制芯片等）中，由于其中的年份只使用两位 十进制数 来表示，因此当系统进行（或涉及到）跨世纪的日期处理运算时（如多个日期之间的计算或比较等），就会出现错误的结果，进而引发各种各样的系统 功能紊乱 甚至崩溃。 因此从根本上说千年虫是一种程序处理日期上的 bug （计算机程序故障），而非 病毒。 [1]

2025年3月18日 · Y2K bug, a problem in the coding of computerized systems that was projected to create havoc in computers and computer networks around the world at the beginning of the year 2000. After over a year of international alarm, few major failures occurred in the transition from December 31, 1999, to January 1, 2000.

2017年8月1日 · The Y2K Scare was a phenomenon at the turn of the 21st century where computer users and programmers feared that computers would stop working on December 31, 1999. The phenomenon was also referred to as the "Millennium Bug" or "Year 2000 problem" by technology experts.

2019年12月27日 · We know now that humanity came out of Y2K relatively unscathed, after spending an estimated $300 billion to $600 billion to fix potential problems in the years before the millennium. But still, a...

2019年9月11日 · The term Year 2000 bug, also known as the millennium bug and abbreviated as Y2K, referred to potential computer problems which might have resulted when dates used in computer systems moved from the ye...

In the closing years of the twentieth century, countries spent billions of dollars correcting computer systems to make them "Y2K compliant." Banks, social security systems, and food distribution centers were all thought to be at risk. World leaders tried hard to reassure citizens that the problem was under control.

2019年12月30日 · He was President Bill Clinton’s Y2K “czar,” and he flew that night to prove to a jittery public — and scrutinizing press — that after an extensive, multi-year effort, the country was ready for...

The worldwide scare over the ‘Y2K bug’ resulted in the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars on Y2K compliance and conversion policies. Most of this expenditure can be

2019年10月16日 · The entire Y2K fiasco quickly faded into memory and was sometimes used as a punchline about overly ambitious doomsday thinking. But was it really so overblown? The Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem was …