A look at the peaks & pratfalls of Y2K conversions.
The National Public Accountant › Vol. 43 Nbr. 2, March 1998
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Year 2000 date transition problem for computers
The topic of the Y2K or millenium bug involving the issue of date transition for computers worldwide has hardly been avoidable in the English-speaking world. Most of the nation's businesses are attempting to address the problem, which can be resolved using either one of two fundamental solutions. Most companies have opted to use the solution of changing the data their computers run on rather than altering the logic by which the computers operate. This means that many firms are going in the wrong direction to solve the Y2K problem.See the full content of this document
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A look at the peaks & pratfalls of Y2K conversions.
Unless one has been out of touch with the English speaking world for the past six months, it's hard to escape the realities of the Year 2000 problem - a.k.a. Y2K and the Millennium Bug. On January 1, 2000, all computers that have not been made compliant with the date change marking the new millennium will likely stumble, falter, and crash, wreaking havoc on world business at a cost of uncounted billions of dollars.
According to studies of the problem, led by the Ga...See the full content of this document
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