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 …

2023年5月29日 · Y2K is short for the Year 2000. Specifically, the term was the nefarious nickname of the Year 2000 Bug or the Millennium Bug, as it was also known. The bug in question was a potential computer flaw stemming from the simple fact that, in the 1950s and ‘60s, computer memory was a very expensive resource.

2025年2月12日 · 2000年问题 （英语： Year 2000 Problem，简称： Y2K[1]）， 中国大陆 及 香港 常称 千年虫问题[2][3]， 台湾 则称 千禧虫危机[4]，是一个 计算机程序 在日期表达上的设计缺陷，该缺陷会导致 计算机 错误识别 2000年 及之后的年份，从而导致其日期识别紊乱，使得 计算机 执行任何与时间相关的任务时都会出错，进而影响整个系统的运行。 该问题主要涉及到许多老旧的计算机，为了节省存储空间，它们的程序普遍采用6位数字来存储时间，只取4位年份数字中的 …

2019年12月30日 · After the collective sigh of relief in the first few days of January 2000, however, Y2K morphed into a punch line, as relief gave way to derision — as is so often the case when warnings appear...

2020年1月1日 · There were three explicit threads of reasoning behind the Y2K disaster scenarios: Catastrophic Y2K pre-testing. There had, according to numerous reports, been several roll-the-clock-forward...

2019年12月30日 · Y2K was the great glitch in computer systems that looked capable of destroying civilisation at the stroke of midnight on the millennium. In the end, however, nothing much went wrong. Some people...

2020年5月16日 · Billions of dollars were spent addressing the Y2K bug. Government, military, and corporate systems were all at risk, yet we made it through, more or less, unscathed. So, was the threat even real? In the 1950s and '60s, representing years with two digits became the norm. One reason for this was to save space.

2019年2月5日 · Some people feared the worst: that a computer bug known as Y2K would launch nuclear missiles and cause planes to fall from the sky. Other people insisted that this thing called Y2K was a hoax, not worthy of a second thought. Still others hedged their bets, packing go-bags with dehydrated food and wilderness survival supplies.

2018年8月6日 · And Matthew Hackling said: "I climbed through the roof spaces of maximum security prisons doing inventory of PLCs [programmable logic controllers] for Y2K - 80% of systems worked fine, 15% date...

Five years after the hoopla and warnings about Y2K, many dismiss it as a hoax, scam, or non-event. Not only was Y2K a real threat narrowly averted, but it is still having major effects on the economy.