My Portfolio Asset Allocation Manager Portfolio Snapshot Currency Calculator Future Value Calculator Budget Analyzer Regular Payments Calc. One-time Investment Calc. Rate of Return Calculator Retirement Planning Calc. Retirment Asset Allocation RRSP Graphing Calculator RRSP Tax Savings Calculator After-Tax Returns Calc. The Y2K bug was more than the lack of a four-digit date field in computer programs.
Some programs track time by adding the number of days in a year.
This is not just a theoretical problem. Y2K was an interesting phenomenon for many reasons, including the attention it received. Incredible amounts of gloom, doom and hype led up to the end of the year. In hindsight, it is clear many people overreacted to the Y2K problem in general. Hopefully, the computing community has learned programs can be with us far longer than anticipated and programming conventions need to be challenged in light of changing technology and circumstances.