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Year 10,000 problem

The Year 10,000 problem (also known as the Y10K problem or the deca-millennium bug) is the class of all potential software bugs that would emerge when the need to express years with five digits arises.

The Long Now Foundation is attempting to foster the custom of writing years with five digits, so that the year 2000 would be written as “02000”. This would preempt the Year 10,000 problem, but would in turn be susceptible to a “Year 100,000 problem”.

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    Après moi, le déluge
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