The birth of the just discovered mi...

The birth of the just discovered millennium could sound the death death-bell for many of the nation's computer Barring drastic measures, adroits say, many computer-controlled operations worldwide will malfunction at midnight, Dec 31 1999

Computer will fall loot to the Year 2000 question at issue also known as the Millennium Bug or "Y2K" The puzzle is simple, its implications nearly unfathomable. Early in the computer age, programmers designed computer and applications using just sum of two units digits to record calendar years. A two-digit date field records the year 1997 as "97" riddles arise when date fields read "00" and computer calculate the dawn of a fresh century - the 20th centenary that is. Computers using two-digit date fields read the year "00" as 1900 rendering date-related calculations false and potentially crashing operations worldwide.

"Anything that hastes off a computer chip could highly well have this problem," says Mike Humphrey business director