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This 5 page paper discusses the year 2000 computer crisis. The problem as already resulted in computer shut-downs when merchants attempt to scan a credit card with an expiry date of 2000 or beyond. The problem is real and can result in possible mayhem. Why it is a problem and the possible repercussions are discussed from economical, safety, and everyday life perspectives. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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situation. Consider these actual events: In November 1996, Mike Yarsike, who owns a gourmet food market in Warren, Michigan ran a customers credit card through his machine. Ten computerized cash
registers in the store locked shut for four hours; fifteen months later, the system was still experiencing glitches. The credit card has an expiration date in the year 2000. An
appointment clerk in a medical organization attempted to make an appointment for a patient for January 2000, the entire computer network that serves 75 clinics and three hospitals shut down
for hours with continuing problems. These kinds of computer glitches, called sightings, interrupt the normal flow of business and are occurring throughout the world whenever the date being entered is
2000 or beyond. There are millions of computer software programs that cannot read any dates beyond 1999 and experts in the field have finally realized that not even Microsoft can
offer a simple one-shot solution. Instead, there are now legions of programmers across the world correcting the problem, line by tedious line at enormous costs to both governments and companies
(Rock and Reynolds, 1998). The Year 2000 Computer Bug, also known as the Millennium Bug and as the Y2K bug sounds absurd but it is real and it could cause
mayhem in the world. Most computer programs have a two-digit date field, thus when the year 1998 is keyed in, the computer reads only "97." When the year 2000 arrives,
it will register in the computer program as "00," and it will translate that to 1900, not 2000 (Bordwin, 1998). The two-digit format, originally intended to save time and space
on the program leaves the computer unable to distinguish between 2000 and 1900 or 2001 and 1901. The ambiguity can cause the system or application program that uses dates to
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