Let us start now exercising our faith in the Word of God, and let us pray for discernment and wisdom as to what our approach should be. I believe that the Y2K Bug will be the greatest opportunity that the Church has ever had to spread the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the world will be ready to respond. Computers are now involved in every facet of our lives. Most of us who have owned or worked on personal computers have experienced a crash of one form or another. But none of us has experienced the kind of worldwide computer crash that will happen as a result of the Millennium Bug.
Many computers use only two digits rather than four to indicate the year.
That's the problem. Some computers may reject any new data, believing it to be old. The problem is a basic one and it's actually easy to fix, but the magnitude is overwhelming and the time remaining is simply insufficient. The real issue is a management one. Programmers can't tell you, and very few managers have a handle on it either.