Millenium Bug

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  1. MDG

    MDG Well-Known Member

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    I'm still waiting for the dreaded millenium bug to take its stranglehold on the worlds IT systems.

    Planes dropping out of the air, people losing millions when banks computers go into meltdown.

    Some muppet made a lot of money somewhere I am sure. Or maybe not such a muppet.

    Still I guess theres more chance of that happening than Odejayi to come on and score on Saturday
     
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    IT Consultants!</p>

    You see that 2 digit date you are using there? you want to make it use 4 digits!</p>

    You can't? Ok, then if the year is less than 10, assume its 20xx, overwise its 19xx.</p>

    Sorted, that'll be 1k a day ta very much. And we can do this all again in 2010.
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    Glad to see we're all keeping our fingers on the pulse!

    Very topical debate :D
     
  5. Gue

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    The majority of data

    systems had 2 digit year fields. All programs and databases had to be changed to handle that. That was the only problem when going over to 2K.
     

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