what is Y2K problem. why its happened at that time ??

Answer 1

From the ever helpful wiki:

"The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug, and the Y2K Bug) was the result of a practice in early computer program design that caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after January 1, 2000. It engendered widespread concern that critical industries (such as electricity or financial) and government functions would cease operating at exactly midnight, January 1, 2000, and on other critical dates which were billed as "event horizons". This fear was fueled by the attendant press coverage and other media speculation, as well as corporate and government reports. Companies and organizations world-wide checked and upgraded their computer systems. The preparation for Y2K thus had a significant effect on the computer industry. No significant computer failures occurred when the clocks rolled over into 2000. Debate continues on whether the absence of computer failures was the result of the preparation undertaken or whether the significance of the problem had been overstated."

Answer 2

It was believed that computers used at that time didn't recognize any date that didn't contain the beginning two digits 19 so the year 2000 was going to create problems in accessing important data after that date. Some people think it was a hoax because nothing really bad happened, like the banks closing and bombs going off, but what most people don't realize is that the industries that were going to be affected the worst, such as the banking industry, spent a lot of time and money making sure the computers were upgraded so this wouldn't happen. Financial institutions were required by the government and had over a year to do testing and complete and implement a plan to ensure they would still be able to access the necessary data. So because of all the planning and testing nothing happend; therefore some people just assumed that it was all a hoax when what it really was was a success story about how to work together to repair a potential problem.

Answer 3

Y2K problem

(Year 2000 problem) The inability of older hardware and software to recognize the century change in a date. The reason they could not was because the year was stored with only two digits; for example, 12-11-42 instead of 12-11-1942. Thus, when the year changed from 1999 to 2000, the date became 01-01-00, and the system thought it was January 1, 1900.

The solution to this "millennium bug" required upgrading hardware to support four-digit years, converting files and databases to four-digit years and converting all the software that references dates. Enterprises had a huge amount of legacy data files and thousands of programs that accessed them. With many older applications, the programmers who wrote them were long gone, and program documentation was lacking. In many instances, the source code was missing. Even when changes could be made, the time it took to test them was taxing on the IT staff who were trying to run the daily work and implement new applications.

Answer 4

The y2k problem is a problem in the design of systems software in the years before the year 2000, where the designers of the systems didn't expect the system to still be running up to the year 2000, so to save crucial storage space they only allowed the entry and recording of a two figure date, but when these systems where still in use as we approached the year 2000, these systems may have caused unexpected results, even in mission critical systems, and experts and analysts where cautious of what could happen, because this situation has never occurred before.

Answer 5

It was all made up and you are a little late
Today= Y2K+7

Answer 6

the problem y2k was related to year 2000 ....... in this the computer's could not switch there dates to year 2000 ..... the biggest problem were for banks

Answer 7

Because of the way PCs told time, there was a concern that they would revert to the year 1900, rather than 2000 and cause a cataclysmic imparement of the system

Answer 8

YK2 was a scare that when we rolled over to 2000 the computers wern't desinged to reconize the new melinium so there fore, the calendar on the computer would roll over to 00 indecating 1900 and messing all the records and basicly everything depending n our "dating" system up basicly an update here and a update there it was nothing in the end...

Answer 9

The problem was actually converted from a digital one to a musical one and that's why not long thereafter we had to suffer through the mountains of complete **** they call "Popular Music" nowadays! We preserved the Earth and all known lifeform existence it supports but we pay'd dearly for it with allowing acts such as Justin Beiber and One Direction to populate the radio and music channels!

Answer 10

to become a little more technical about this, the theory says that computing systems designed up to a point had this date format: [DD/MM/19YY] because their designers did not expect them to face the 2000 date problem.. therefore in theory those systems would reset their clocks at 1900 instead of 2000 at the millennium change resulting into catastrophic crashes...
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