What Is Y2K Year 2000 Bug
Sometimes abbreviated as Y2K, the millennium bug or Year 2000 bug is a warning first published by Bob Bemer in 1971 describing the issues of computers using a two-digit year date stamp. In the past, to save time and space, programmers represented a year as two digits instead of four (e.g., ‘79’ for ‘1979’). If a computer rolled over to the year 2000, the computer interpreted ‘2000’ as ‘00’, causing the computer to think it’s ‘1900’ instead of the year ‘2000’....