2K38 PROBLEM

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Introduction to Y2K problem


Y2K was the common abbreviation for the Year 2000 Problem

It also named the Millennium Bug .

. The first recorded mention of the Year 2000 Problem was on a Usenet Newsgroup on Saturday, January 19, 1985 by Usenet poster, Spencer Bolles.


Solution of Y2K problem

* Recode the software so that it understands that years like 00, 01, 02, etc. really mean 2000, 2001, 2002, etc.


* "Truly fix the problem" by using 4-digit placeholders for years and recoding all the software to deal with 4-digit dates


Conclusion


An alert reader was kind enough to point out that IBM PC hardware suffers from the Year 2116 problem.

Windows NT uses a 64-bit integer to track time. However, it uses 100 nanoseconds as its increment and the beginning of time is January 1, 1601, so NT suffers from the Year 2184 problem.