Uncertainty surrounds next week’s “pre-millennium bug�. When clocks roll over
to 9 September 1999—09/09/99—some programmers believe this could
cause system failures because computers will interpret it as 9999, which means
“end of file� in some programming languages. But sceptics dismiss this, saying
there would only be problems if computers read a date consisting of six
nines—99/99/99. Either way, both camps agree that the date change serves
as a good test run for 1 January.
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