Y2K (Year 2000 Problem)

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Y2K (Year 2000 Problem)

T h e Y e a r 2 0 0 0 P r o b l e m Argument for the statement "The Year
2000 bug will have such extensive repercussions that families and
individuals should begin planning now for the imminent chaos." The Ticking
Bomb Introduction A serious problem called the "Millennium Bug", and also
known as the "Year 2000 Problem" and "Y2K", is bringing a new century
celebration into a daunting nightmare. In the 1860s and 1970s, when computer
systems were first built, the computer hardware, especially information
storage space, was at a premium. With an effort to minimise storage costs,
numeric storage spaces were drained to the smallest possible data type.
Ignoring the fact that a software may be run in multiple centuries,
programmers started conserving storage spaces by using two digits to specify
a year, rather than four. Consequently, on January 1, 2000, unless the
software is corrected, most software programs with date or time may
malfunction to recognise the entries in the year fields "00" as the year as
"1900" instead of "2000" . Year 2000 problem is not restricted only to the
above exigency. 20 years ago, everybody understood that a leap year came
every 4th year except for every 100th year. However, a piece of algorithm
has been forgotten by most people – a leap year does exist every 400 years.
So, under the first two rules, year 2000 is not a leap year, but with the
third rule, it actually is. Computing errors will also occur before Year
2000. Values such as 99 are sometimes used for special purposes not related
to the date. The number 99 is used in some systems as an expiration date for
data to be archived permanently – so some computers may lose the data a year
before 2000. Programmers and software developers were surprised to see some
of their programs survive for only a few years but failed to anticipate the
problems coming by the year 2000. It is sorrowful to find most programs are
still in use or have been incorporated into successor systems. Because of
the need for new applications to share data in a common format with existing
systems, inheriting the six-digit date field that has become a standard over
time. The disaster scenario envisaged is that a great number of computer
systems around the world will make processing errors and will either crash
or produce incorrect outputs . As a result financial institutions,
businesses organisations, informational technology and even aeroplane radar
com...

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