The Y2K Problem

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reality for many
information technology managers and their corporations.

What, specifically, _is_ this "millennia virus" to begin with? There has
been much talk about it, and most people know it has something to do with
the date formats and how they are processed by the computer. How it is
affecting that processing is what the key to implementing a solution is.

There are several forms the "bug" will metamorphose into. For example:

Field / Date Processing
Time based calculations
Hardware failure

Will all be affected by the problem.

"OLD will seem YOUNG, a FEW moments will seem like an ENTIRE century,
FUTURE events will have ALREADY occurred."

-- Duncan G. Connall , Global Software, Inc.

Scope of Problems

The scope of this problem is immense. The awareness and information
available on this problem is growing rapidly, as a observation of the rate
at which the amount of information available on the Internet has been
growing. An advanced search of "year ...

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to 00 or 1900. This is of particular concern with widespread
versions of home database and spreadsheet software becoming obsolete unless
patches are released to fix this behavior. For many companies, however, the
attitude has been to make a complete upgrade of the software necessary -
hardly an ideal solution for the home user.

"According to a variety of experts, it will take, on average, 6 months to
do and impact analysis of the systems before beginning another three to six
months worth of pilot projects. Then, production itself could easily take a
couple of years, depending on the size of your business and the
availability of resources. And those resources, whether in-house or ...

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