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What (who) is millennium bug - definition

PROGRAMMING TERM
Bug compatible; Bug-for-bug compatibility; Bug-for-bug compatible

millennium bug         
  • An [[Apple Lisa]] does not accept the date
  • A Best Buy sticker from 1999 recommending that their customers turn off their computers ahead of midnight
  • Webpage screenshots showing the [[JavaScript]] .getYear() method problem, which depicts the year 2000 problem
  • Juno Internet Service Provider CD labeling Y2K-compliance
  • The logo created by The President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion, for use on Y2K.gov
CLASS OF COMPUTER BUGS RELATED TO DATES BEGINNING IN THE YEAR 2000
Millennium Bug; Y2K; Year 2000 bug; Y2k; Y2K bug; Y2K Bug; Millennium bug; Y2K problem; Y2k problem; Y2k bug; Ytwok; Millenium bug; Y2k scare; Y2K compliant; 2000 time problem; January 1, 2000; 19100; Y2K Problem; Year 2,000 problem; Y2K computer bug; Millenium Bug; 2000 virus; Year 2010 problem; Y2.01k; Y2.01K; Y2K+10; 19:0; Y2K bugfix; Y2K-Bug; Y2K+10 bug; Decennium bug; Y2K glitch; Y@K; Y@k; Y2K error; Century date change; Year 2000 Problem
millennium bug         
  • An [[Apple Lisa]] does not accept the date
  • A Best Buy sticker from 1999 recommending that their customers turn off their computers ahead of midnight
  • Webpage screenshots showing the [[JavaScript]] .getYear() method problem, which depicts the year 2000 problem
  • Juno Internet Service Provider CD labeling Y2K-compliance
  • The logo created by The President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion, for use on Y2K.gov
CLASS OF COMPUTER BUGS RELATED TO DATES BEGINNING IN THE YEAR 2000
Millennium Bug; Y2K; Year 2000 bug; Y2k; Y2K bug; Y2K Bug; Millennium bug; Y2K problem; Y2k problem; Y2k bug; Ytwok; Millenium bug; Y2k scare; Y2K compliant; 2000 time problem; January 1, 2000; 19100; Y2K Problem; Year 2,000 problem; Y2K computer bug; Millenium Bug; 2000 virus; Year 2010 problem; Y2.01k; Y2.01K; Y2K+10; 19:0; Y2K bugfix; Y2K-Bug; Y2K+10 bug; Decennium bug; Y2K glitch; Y@K; Y@k; Y2K error; Century date change; Year 2000 Problem
¦ noun an inability in older computing software to deal correctly with dates of 1 January 2000 or later.
Y2K         
  • An [[Apple Lisa]] does not accept the date
  • A Best Buy sticker from 1999 recommending that their customers turn off their computers ahead of midnight
  • Webpage screenshots showing the [[JavaScript]] .getYear() method problem, which depicts the year 2000 problem
  • Juno Internet Service Provider CD labeling Y2K-compliance
  • The logo created by The President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion, for use on Y2K.gov
CLASS OF COMPUTER BUGS RELATED TO DATES BEGINNING IN THE YEAR 2000
Millennium Bug; Y2K; Year 2000 bug; Y2k; Y2K bug; Y2K Bug; Millennium bug; Y2K problem; Y2k problem; Y2k bug; Ytwok; Millenium bug; Y2k scare; Y2K compliant; 2000 time problem; January 1, 2000; 19100; Y2K Problem; Year 2,000 problem; Y2K computer bug; Millenium Bug; 2000 virus; Year 2010 problem; Y2.01k; Y2.01K; Y2K+10; 19:0; Y2K bugfix; Y2K-Bug; Y2K+10 bug; Decennium bug; Y2K glitch; Y@K; Y@k; Y2K error; Century date change; Year 2000 Problem

Wikipedia

Bug compatibility

Computer hardware or software is said to be bug compatible if it exactly replicates even an undesirable feature of a previous version. The phrase is found in the Jargon File.

An aspect of maintaining backward compatibility with an older system is that such systems' client programs often do not only depend on their specified interfaces but also bugs and unintended behaviour. That must also be preserved by the newer replacement. Besides the significantly higher complexity that needs to be maintained during the natural evolution of the code or interface, it can sometimes cause performance or security issues, and the inconsistencies in the behaviour of interfaces can sometimes lead to new bugs in the software using it, creating difficult to resolve multi-directional cross dependencies between various pieces of code.

Examples of use of millennium bug
1. Millennium Bug: End of civilisation We first became familiar with the modern scare phenomenon with Mrs Currie‘s gaffe about eggs in 1'88.
2. In the final years of the 20th century, the millennium bug was predicted to be the harbinger of a major catastrophe.
3. Like the population explosion, the non– existent millennium bug and the impending Ice Age (remember that?), the Great Oil Crisis evaporated into the sands of Araby.
4. In the late 1''0s, top industrialists and politicians, led by Tony Blair, predicted that "2YK", the Millennium Bug, was facing civilisation with a crisis which, according to learned academics, would cost 150 billion to fix.
5. One internal report has said the move to IPv6 will cost the US government anywhere from $25bn to $75bn over the next three years, bringing visions of a terrifying boondoggle to compare with the Y2K "millennium bug" panic.