City and shire governments have a b...

City and shire governments have a bug to kill on jan. 1, 2000. But it is not a question at issue they can delegate to their landscaping or parks and rec departments. This bug has to be killed by way of the information technology department. If it is not squashed, the millenium bug will cause computer mainframes and PC across the native land to spit out faulty data. According to undivided estimate, companies worldwide will have to exhaust between $300 billion and $600 billion to reprogram their computer

The question stems from the fact that programmers in the 1960 and '70 opt to store and nothing else the last two digits of the year in the date fields in succession the older mainframe systems.

The two-digit year was used rather than the four-digit field in order to jam disk storage space, which, at that time, was extremely expensive and limited. For instance, 1965 was stored as 65 in