The battle of the bug By M. Ray Perryman Watch out. The Millennium bug may bite you.
Skeptics dismiss the brouhaha as vastly overrated hype.
Alarmists warn us that the sky of information technology is falling. I think most would agree that we have a problem, but not only in Houston. If there were those who suspected the date-keeping feature was inadequate, they kept their peace. The Y2K event itself occurs at the changing of the millennium. Quite simply, when the year 1999 rolls over to 2000, many computer programs will just not recognize the date code.