The term year 2000 problem, also commonly known as the year 2000 bug, Y2K problem, Y2K scare, millennium bug, Y2K bug, Y2K glitch, or Y2K error or simply Y2K, refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of …

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.

2024年12月31日 · Although this might seem a bit silly in hindsight, there was a very real media frenzy and societal panic about Y2K — and those concerns might not have been totally invalid. Behind the scenes, programmers were fervently working on correcting numerous issues with computer systems, and government agencies were preparing to stand by in case ...

2019年12月30日 · The term Y2K had become shorthand for a problem stemming from the clash of the upcoming Year 2000 and the two-digit year format utilized by early coders to minimize use of computer memory, then...

2019年12月26日 · In 1999, Y2K was shorthand for a computer bug that many believed would break the world's electronic systems. They were convinced the bug would prevent online clocks from turning forward to 2000,...

2024年12月31日 · For people over the age of 30, the Y2K panic of 1999 was a real concern. It seems silly now, but for many people a quarter century ago, it was the dawn of an impending global meltdown. The "panic" centered around a year being represented by two digits on computer systems.

With a vague idea that dates could be messed up in major computer systems, people began theorizing the effects of the Y2K problem. Banking transactions could be halted, transportation systems such as trains or airplanes could be interrupted, or …

2024年9月25日 · The Y2K bug, also known as the Millennium bug, was a computer quirk that caused widespread panic as the world approached the year 2000. It originated from the practice of abbreviating four-digit years as two digits in computer systems, potentially leading to incorrect date calculations once the year 2000 began.

2019年12月27日 · Two decades after the panic of the century, it’s time to finally hear from the people who spent years—and billions of dollars—making sure it didn’t. By Eric Spitznagel Published: Dec 27 ...