Computer bugs in the year 2000

[das at ucla-cs.UUCP]

>From what I've read, many programs broke at the start of 1970 because they
stored the year as a single digit; fewer, but still a good number, broke in
1980.  I think the real trouble will come on January 3, 2000, not January 1,
since the 3rd is the first business day.  I think the problems will come
in subtle ways -- most companies will catch the obvious implications of a
two-digit year cycling around, but buried away in some obscure code...

-- David Smallberg, das at ucla-cs.ARPA, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das