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]

Y2K may refer to: Y2K problem, a computer issue related to the year 2000; Year 2K, the year 2000 ("Y" stands for "year", and "K" stands for "kilo-", which means "thousand")

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5月31日 · Y2K is the shorthand term for "the year 2000." Y2K was commonly used to refer to a widespread computer programming shortcut that was expected to cause extensive havoc as the year changed from...

The term "Y2K" is a shorthand way of referring to the Year 2000 problem. The problem is that many computer systems store dates using only the last two digits of the year, which could cause some systems to misinterpret the year 2000 as the year 1900.

2020年12月16日 · Two decades ago an existential threat brought the world together— the Y2K bug. In the late 1990s, computers were rapidly transforming how the world worked, but an invisible enemy loomed. 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 year 1999 to the year 2000.

By 1999 computers had transformed everyday life around the world, but an invisible digital enemy called Y2K threatened to bring it all down. Would the electrical grid collapse? Would planes fall...

2024年12月31日 · Yes, the year 2000 software problem, known as Y2K, turned out to be a nonevent. That has led to a widely held view that it was a kind of manufactured crisis, a vastly overstated danger inflated...