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...computer-date problem stems from computers' having been programmed with only the last two digits of the year. So rather than identifying the year as 1997, the computer only knows...
When some systems were set to the year 2000 in a trial run, many computers crashed or misinterpreted data. For example, some credit cards with an expiration date past the year 2000 failed, saying that they were 99 years past their expiration date...
...year 2000 computer-date problem is being addressed across the University by auditors, deans and administrators...
...Next spring, there will be a test of the payroll system actually running with the system date set forward to the year 2000," says Gene C. Madden, managing auditor of information systems. "Each unit based on what the system is and what the impact would be were it to fail has developed some of its own testing plans...
...largest threats of the year 2000 computer-date problem--also known as the millennium bug--is not the threat to computer systems, but the hazard to anything with an embedded chip--such as elevators or security systems...