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	Year 2000 problem
		The Year 2000 Problem (also known as the Y2K problem and the Millennium Bug) was a flaw in computer program design that caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times after January 1, 2000.
		In the years prior to 2000, some corporations and governments, when they did testing to determine the extent of the potential impact, reported that some of their critical systems really would need significant repairs or risk serious breakdowns.
		Another related problem for the year 2000 was that it was a leap year even though years ending in '00' are normally not leap years.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ye/Year_2000_bug.html (1674 words)

	Probate & Property July/Aug 1998 The Year 2000 Bug: Will it "Byte" Real Estate?
		The year 2000 problem exists because most computers use a two digit dating system that assumes that 1 and 9 are the first two digits of a year.
		If the systems are presently not year 2000 compliant but the landlord is taking steps to make them so, the lease should reflect those efforts and obligate the landlord to continue its compliance efforts, allowing sufficient time for testing.
		Although the consultant may be able to gauge the landlord's year 2000 compliance level, it may be difficult to determine whether the landlord has resolved year 2000 problems with vendors with which the landlord exchanges electronic information.
	www.abanet.org /rppt/publications/magazine/1998/ja98shep.html (3370 words)

	Year 2000 Compatibility (aka "Millennium Bug")
		As management understanding of the Year 2000 problem (aka, "The Millennium Bug") increases, more and more companies are demanding official statements from the vendors of their hardware and software as to how their product will handle the year 2000 date rollover.
		Years in the range 00-68 are treated as 1900-1968 instead of 2000-2068.
		RFC 2068 is employed, which causes two-digit years to be interpreted as always belonging to the current century unless they would be 50 or more years in the future.
	www.freebsd.org /y2kbug.html (948 words)

	Legal Issues Concerning the Year 2000 "Millennium Bug" - Jeff Jinnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In this respect, the Year 2000 "Millennium Bug", even though not created with malicious intent and possibly not technically constituting a "virus", may still be thought of as acting in the manner of a "virus" that can re-infect a computer system even after it has been made Year 2000 compliant.
		Insurance carriers issuing business interruption insurance may decide to highlight the Year 2000 problem in an insert or letter to their insureds in the next year or two in order to be able to establish conclusively that their insureds were aware of the issue.
		The final Year 2000 corrective plan should be formally reviewed and approved by the company's key officers and its board of directors so as to lay the groundwork for the officers and directors to be able to establish a "due diligence" defense under securities laws and under the "Business Judgment Rule".
	www.comlinks.com /legal/jjin1.htm (6960 words)

	Will Compaq catch `Year 2000 Bug'? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Prove It 2000 filed a formal complaint with a British regulatory agency, charging that a recent series of ads touting Compaq computers as being ready for the millennium are misleading.
		When 2000 rolls around, some experts predict a wide-ranging digital calamity unless the problem is fixed, with problems ranging from bank accounts being wiped clean to power plants shutting down.
		Prove It 2000 says Compaq's systems aren't compliant because a component called the real-time clock sees 2000 as the year 1900 if a Compaq computer is left on when the rollover from 1999 to 2000 occurs.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/business/98/07/21/y2k_2-1.html (884 words)

	Fighting year 2000 bug taking bite out of cities
		Milwaukee has spent tens of millions of dollars to protect the city from the year 2000 computer problem, but officials still plan to have extra police officers and firefighters on duty when the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31, 1999, just in case things go wrong.
		The so-called year 2000 problem is a result of computers recognizing a year by its last two digits.
		Linda Seemeyer, executive assistant in the state Department of Administration who is coordinating state government's year 2000 readiness efforts, said the exact cost of that effort could not be determined.
	www2.jsonline.com /bym/tech/1012jsobug9.asp (1010 words)

	03/02/19 ZAP! HOW THE YEAR 2000 BUG WILL HURT THE ECONOMY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Year 2000 is going to pose a serious policy dilemma for the Federal Reserve, which has been trying to steer a tricky course.
		Indeed, what makes Year 2000 particularly vexing is that it affects both stand-alone computers and the embedded processors built into all sorts of modern equipment, from automated factory equipment to power plants to cars to cellular telephones.
		In one Year 2000 test, notes Jared S. Wermiel, who is leading the millennium bug effort at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the security computer at a nuclear power plant failed by opening vital areas that are normally locked.
	www.businessweek.com /1998/09/b3567001.htm (2730 words)

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		Businesses, industries and governments throughout the world are in the midst of fixing the computer glitch commonly called the “Year 2000 Millennium Bug”—compared to a ticking time bomb waiting for the clock to strike midnight on December 31, 1999.
		Unless the data fields are changed to reflect the arrival of the new century, computers won’t be able to distinguish the year 2000 from 1900.
		By thinking critically about year 2000 compliance and setting a response plan in motion, you can not only keep your firm running into the new year, but give your business the technological advantages it needs to stay competitive into the next century.
	www.sba.gov /library/successXI/03-The-Year-2000-BUg.doc (2282 words)

	Year 2000 Computer Bug Could Endanger Patients
		NEW YORK, Sep 25 (Reuters) -- The Year 2000 computer bug could endanger the lives of millions of patients by affecting healthcare delivery, according to a panel of experts who met Friday to discuss the issue at a special summit held in Washington, DC.
		Computer mix-ups due to the bug, which could scramble data in the year 2000, could have serious consequences if they affect today's high-tech medical equipment and healthcare data-processing networks.
		The dire effect the bug could have on patient care was emphasized at the meeting by Laurene West, a Utah registered nurse who has long fought a recurrent brain tumor.
	www.personalmd.com /news/a1998092512.shtml (574 words)

	Myths regarding the Year 2000 (Y2K) Bug
		In fact, the difficulties caused by the year 2000 challenge are already occurring, for example, some applications that deal with future dates in such areas as mortgages, insurance policies, and driver’s license and credit card expiration dates have already encountered problems.
		Many uses of two-digit year expressions are hidden deep in software code that is often undocumented and inaccessible to staff.
		All hardware which uses 4-digits for year representation will be unaffected by the transition to the year 2000, provided software which controls its operation also use 4-digits format for year representation.
	www.whosea.org /exp/mythsy2k.htm (428 words)

	Year2000 - The "Millenium Bug" by Encyberpedia
		Because most information systems and databases were developed only allowing for 2 digits to represent the year (e.g., 96 for 1996), when we move into the next century in the year 2000 systems with 2-digit year fields may fail to operate or may give erroneous results.
		One hundred years ago the problem was simply changing preprinted forms, checks, invoices etc. with the markings 18__ to 19__ so the year could be inserted in the blank space.
		January 1, 2000 falls on a Saturday, and Monday is a holiday...you'll have lots of time over the weekend.
	www.encyberpedia.com /year2000.htm (647 words)

	Year 2000- 'Millennium bug' gets dissected
		It is already too late to fix all of the computers and computer chips that won't know the difference between the year 2000 and the year 1900.
		Bob Clement (D-Tenn.) chose the year 2000 computer problem as the subject of his 10th annual economic conference in Nashville.
		The problem is that the two digits for the year 2000 will be "00," and, under the old standard, computers will operate as if that means the year 1900.
	www.publicforuminstitute.org /newsroom/clips/1998/98-09-22-tn.htm (1010 words)

	Year 2000 Bug - Resources
		The Greenwich 2000 Millenium Channel discusses the Year 2000 computer problem as well as the celebration of the new millenium that will occur the following year.
		2000 Questions to Consider gives you a list of questions to consider related to your computer systems and the Year 2000.
		The information here is designated a "Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure" pursuant to the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act, Public Law 105-271.
	www.bladecomputing.com /y2k/resources.htm (275 words)

	Year 2000 a 'bug'? Swat that word from your dictionary
		The answer is plain: A bug is an unpremeditated and unplanned occurrence, while the more appropriate words may call for a judgment about personal accountability.
		Calling the year 2000 fiasco a bug suggests something as blameless as a trapped insect.
		If we are to learn from the year 2000 experience, we must see it as a lesson in managing IT with an eye on its long-term consequences.
	www.strassmann.com /pubs/cw/notabug.shtml (714 words)

	INS APPROVES NATIONAL INTEREST WAIVER FOR YEAR 2000 BUG FIXER
		The case was submitted on the client's behalf by Duran Dodson and Greg Siskind of the immigration law firm of Siskind, Susser and Haas.
		The year 2000 crisis, also referred to as the Y2K problem or the millennium bug, has received a great deal of attention in the press in recent years, alarming and motivating computer experts, corporate information officers and congressional leaders to take serious steps to address it.
		The case presented documentation showing that as the year 2000 approaches, tens of thousands of government agencies, institutions, corporations and smaller businesses worldwide must face the software problem.
	www.visalaw.com /98jul/32jul98.html (791 words)

	The Year 2000 computer bug is fast approaching. Also known as the Millennium Bug this programmers shortcut is ...
		Ask your staff if they're aware of the February 29th, 2000 error and how to check for it, even if your computers are "2000 compliant" they may not pass this test.
		Year 2000 Information Center™ provides a forum for disseminating information about the year 2000 problem.
		The CSSA white paper for dealing with the year 2000 bug and management.
	www.eaglestock.com /news/year2000bug_fr.htm (694 words)

	EQUIPPED TO SURVIVE (tm) - Year 2000 / Y2K Bug — Is The Sky Falling?
		However, as with most legitimate problems, there are also lots of individuals who see this as a unique moneymaking opportunity and who aren't the least bit hesitant to, shall we say, "overstate the problem" in order to stuff their wallets.
		The fact that the Y2K bug only became common knowledge and a household topic of conversation fairly recently, despite being a topic of concern among computer types for many years, only exacerbates this crisis mentality and adds to the sense of impending doom, feeding the panic.
		Simply set the year to 1972 -- that year is identical to year 2000 as far as dates coinciding with days of the week, throughout the entire leap year.
	www.equipped.com /y2k.htm (2965 words)

	Clinton Proposed Legislation to Help Businesses With Year 2000 Bug
		It seems that many are still ignoring the situation, and Clinton warned that "any business that approaches the new year armed with only a bottle of champagne and a noise maker is likely to have a very big hangover on New Year's morning." Up until now, the President has not openly discussed the problem.
		Many industry analysts believe that there are too many problems to deal with and that as the year 2000 rapidly approaches, all of the problems will not be solved by both businesses and government agencies.
		Through his spokesperson, Senator Robert F. Bennett of Utah, who heads the Senate committee on the Year 2000 problem, stated that the bill will be debated at a July 31 hearing.
	www.nyls.edu /cmc/bulletins/usply2kp.htm (1160 words)

	Year 2000 Bug
		David Chaffee has patched the current version of Pragma 4 for SCO UNIX (version 4.30a) and hopefully solved the year 2000 bug caused by an old version of SCO UNIX where the year 2000 is not seen as a leap year.
		The year 2000 was too far away to be of concern at the time.
		With a 1 to 20 year time frame, programs can be gradually changed to include the year in the databases (currently I do not store the century in my dates, and that could take a couple of days to fix all those).
	www.xmission.com /~sysdes/logical/t_y2kbug.htm (1643 words)

	Harvard Seeks to Swat Year 2000 Computer Bug
		The year 2000 is coming and Harvard's computer specialists are preparing to meet it.
		The preparation is needed because, along with the new millennium comes the "millennium bug," a worldwide glitch in computer software caused by programmers saving space by noting dates with just two digits.
		The University has surveyed its many schools and departments, quizzed vendors on their software's "Year 2000 compliance," contacted outside institutions with which it exchanges information electronically, and put a University-wide structure in place with the goal of gaining near-total compliance by January 1999.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1998/05.07/HarvardSeekstoS.html (946 words)

	The Year 2000 Bug
		Year 2000 bugs will be subsumed into the sea of bugs that these folks fight every day anyway.
		An antique buff in the year 2039 who wants to drive his mint 1998 Hyundai Excel might be in for a rude shock.
		Surely, forty years from now, 32-bit computers will be obsolete, and every computer that could seriously affect my life is going to have, at the very least, a 64-bit processor and an OS that uses 64-bit dates.
	philip.greenspun.com /research/year-2000.html (2569 words)

	CEE Customs and the Year 2000 Bug--pages 22-24
		Earlier this year The Gartner Group surveyed countries around the world to assess their computer preparedness for the millennium.
		Once this system goes "live" later this year, DHL’s customs agents will be able to transfer all shipment data to the customs office with a simple click of the mouse (a similar system already exists in the Czech Republic).
		As we approach 2000, computers will fail when they attempt to perform comparisons or arithmetic operations that use 00 as a representation of the 2000 digit.
	www.worldbank.org /html/prddr/trans/oct98/dhl.htm (1355 words)

	THE YEAR 2000 MALPRACTICE BUG:
		For example, the year 1990 would, for data processing purposes, be treated in a data field as "90", the year 1995 would appear as "95" and so on.
		Once we enter the year 2000, computers which have used a typical two-digit date field will go from "99"(for the year 1999) to "00"for the year 2000.
		The Year 2000 Crisis may well prove to be the next great litigation boom, but a great part of that boom may prove to be legal malpractice claims arising from a failure to properly deal with Y2K issues.
	www.shk-dplc.com /cfo/articles/malpract.htm (2966 words)

	MIT Team to Deal With Year 2000 Bug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The year 2000 bug is caused by computer programs designed to give dates in the 1900's, often storing the year as two numbers.
		Data calculations might also be affected by the year 2000: Data from the year 1900 might be overwritten by new data.
		The year 2000 team will then estimate the efforts and costs needed to solve the Institute's problems and begin working with administrators and staff in various departments.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V118/N53/bug.8.1.53n.html (535 words)

	The Year 2000 Bug: A Forgotten Lesson
		While the Doomsday clock ticks down to the year 2000, the many books, articles, sales pitches, and Internet sites dealing with the Y2K problem continue to miss the most important lesson from this so-called bug.
		The answer to our first question is well understood In reality, the Y2K bug is not a bug or defect at all.
		These include: --80-column cards, --small mainframe memory, --a then-reasonable and widely held belief that the systems and code being written would be replaced within 10 years, --weak programming and design standards, and --a well-established culture that viewed programming as a private, creative art form.
	cispom.boisestate.edu /cis320emaxson/thom2.htm (1813 words)

	Year 2000 bug nips Notes
		Lotus' position is that it will provide Year 2000 fixes for Versions 4.5, 4.6 and the upcoming 5.0 editions of Notes and Domino.
		Caine is thankful that his brush with the Year 2000 bug wasn't worse.
		Such actions are likely to remain a fact of life for corporate Year 2000 teams, according to Andy Bochman, an analyst with Aberdeen Group in Boston.
	www.networkworld.com /archive/1998/50085_10-19-1998.html (838 words)

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