Millenium

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The year 2000 problem (often it is referred to as the 'Y2K problem' or 'Y2K-compatible' (abbreviation: Y — year (year), 2, K — kilo (1000 C)) — a problem with the fact that software developers are issued in the XX century, sometimes used two digits to represent the year in dates, e.g., January 1, 1951 in such programs was seen as '01.01.51'. Some computers already had hardware date processing, but two digits from 0 to 9 ( i.e. instead of 4 digits ' 1951 'only 2 digits' 51 ' were stored and processed, see the caption to the second picture on the right). Upon the occurrence of January 1, 2000, with a two-digit representation of a year after advancing 99 00 year (i.e. the '99+1' may equal '00' ?), which was interpreted by many older programs as 1900 (or 0), and this, in turn, could lead to serious failures in critical applications, such as process control systems and financial programs. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0_2000_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B