The year 10,000 problem is the collective name for all potential software bugs that may emerge as the need to express years with five digits arises. In the months leading up to the beginning of the year 2000 (see the Year 2000 problem), the year 10,000 problem was given somewhat humorous exposure by people in the media.
Year 10000 problem - Problems with date-handling programs.
A lot of date-handling programs during the year 2000 displayed the year as 1900, 19100, or 100 because the programmers ofte ...
A lot of date-handling programs during the year 2000 displayed the year as 1900, 19100, or 100 because the programmers often simply inserted the text "19" in front of a calculation of the last two digits of the year as a shortcut or a way to save memory space. These sorts of date display errors are not likely to occur again when the year 10000 comes since this type of shortcut isn't useful in this case. However, some programs format dates in a way that only shows the la ...
