Y2K

NOUN
  1. the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar
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How To Use Y2K In A Sentence

  • Fundamentalist and survivalist groups that promote apocalyptic visions also benefit from the scientism of Y2K fright.
  • Sony said in a blog post Monday that the problem was likely caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in the system, reminiscent of the so-called Y2K bug a decade ago. Corporate Watch
  • In this scenario, ill-written software itself intended to patch the Y2K glitch might go overboard and read an intentional 9999 end-of-file value as a date and convert it into an explicit 1999 date.
  • The term Y2K itself suggested a new world awaited us. Kenneth Kales: Understanding Understanding
  • These predictions are the economic equivalent of "Y2K" - always apocalyptic, never true, and all too frequently believed. Richard (RJ) Eskow: A Super Committee "Failure" Wouldn't Hurt The Economy - But a "Success" Sure Would
  • In this scenario, ill-written software itself intended to patch the Y2K glitch might go overboard and read an intentional 9999 end-of-file value as a date and convert it into an explicit 1999 date.
  • The President mentioned two in particular -- the importance of cooperation between the European Union and Russia in dealing with what we call the Y2K issue, the problem of the computers not reading a four-digit 2000 figure and the disruption that this could potentially have. Press Briefing On The Eu Summit
  • A global alert had gone out 10 years ago amid widespread fears of a similar problem, dubbed Y2K, which is linked this time to some computer's inability to recognise the year 2010. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • Simon Durham of Poster Plan said the research showed that Generation Y2K had high levels of unprompted advertising recall and, unlike their parents or older siblings, the word recession didn't even feature in their vocabulary.
  • China's Ministry of Information Industry and the US Department of Commerce jointly held Sino-US International Seminar on Y2K Problem on March 31 this year and achieved a great success.
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