millennium bug en · PROPN
Meanings
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A design flaw in computer systems that represented years as two digits (e.g. 84 for 1984), which could cause date calculations to fail if they involved years later than 1999.
Mr Johnson also said the Northern Irish border row had been blown out of proportion and compared fears over disruption over vital goods coming into the UK to "pure millennium bug stuff".
2018 June 7, Lizzy Buchan, “Boris Johnson says Trump could handle Brexit better and warns of 'meltdown' in explosive leaked recording”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2018:
Synonyms
Y2K bug · Y2K · Y2K scare · year 2000 problem
Translations (8)
pt bug do milênio (a design flaw in computer systems which which could cause date calculations to fail after 1999) · pl pluskwa milenijna (a design flaw in computer systems which which could cause date calculations to fail after 1999) · nl millenniumbug (a design flaw in computer systems which which could cause date calculations to fail after 1999) · cmn 千年蟲 /千年虫 (a design flaw in computer systems which which could cause date calculations to fail after 1999) · pt bug do milénio (a design flaw in computer systems which which could cause date calculations to fail after 1999) · es efecto 2000 (a design flaw in computer systems which which could cause date calculations to fail after 1999) · ja 2000年問題 (a design flaw in computer systems which which could cause date calculations to fail after 1999) · el έντομο της Χιλιετηρίδας (a design flaw in computer systems which which could cause date calculations to fail after 1999)