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millennium bug
noun
, Informal.
- a bug that could cause computers or software to misinterpret a year after 1999 as having the first two digits 19 instead of 20, due to the coding of dates using only the last two digits of the four-digit year.
millennium bug
noun
- computing any software problem arising from the change in date at the start of the 21st century
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Word History and Origins
Origin of millennium bug1
First recorded in 1990–95
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