English Explanatory Dictionary

millennium bug

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A design flaw in computer systems that represented years as two digits (e.g. 84 for 1984), which could cause date calculations to fail if they involved years later than 1999.

Word forms

millennium bug

Synonyms

Y2K Y2K bug Y2K scare year 2000 problem
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