This simple shortcoming in the storage and manipulation of the calander year is causing a great deal of concern to users of computer systems. No one is immune. We all are effected directly or indirectly by some form of computer application. The Year 2000 is a Leap Year T he Y2K problem is not limited to mainframe computers. Anywhere a computer is used, from microcode to application code, from databases to files, a potential problem exists.
Many mechanical devices depend on computers for operation.
If dates are involved with the process, the equipment can malfunction. Most everyone knows that a year divisible by 4 is a leap year except when divisible by 100. However, there is another part of the leap year rule that is little known. This is to be expected since it is only the second time this part of the rule was needed since being added in the year 1582. Years divisible by 400 are leap years.