Foreword
The seeds of the year 2000, or Y2K, technology problem weresown in the 1950s and 1960s, when the first computer programmersdecided to save memory space by representing years with two digitsinstead of four. This system worked smoothly until users startedto input dates occurring after 1999 and realized that many computersin use today are unable to distinguish between a date in the twentiethcentury and one in the twenty-first.Thus, what started as an innocuous short-term solution hasthe potential to develop into an international problem of unknownproportions. When a computer is unable to recognize or computethe 00 date code used in 2000, it…
