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Year 2000 problem

class of computer bugs related to dates beginning in the year 2000
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Year 2000 problem

Summary

Year 2000 problem is a time formatting and storage bugs[1]. It draws 2,363 Wikipedia views per month (time_formatting_and_storage_bugs category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Year 2000 problem's image is recorded as Bug de l'an 2000.jpg[3].
  • Year 2000 problem's image is recorded as Ms-Y2K-RCD.jpg[4].
  • Year 2000 problem's instance of is recorded as time formatting and storage bugs[5].
  • Year 2000 problem's instance of is recorded as technical limitation[6].
  • Year 2000 problem's logo image is recorded as Y2K Logo.gif[7].
  • Year 2000 problem's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh96000895[8].
  • Year 2000 problem's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 131673297[9].
  • Year 2000 problem's Commons category is recorded as Year 2000 problem[10].
  • Year 2000 problem's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 61049[11].
  • Year 2000 problem's point in time is recorded as +2000-01-01T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Year 2000 problem's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09v3z0k[13].
  • Year 2000 problem's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/087rn[14].
  • Year 2000 problem's spoken text audio is recorded as Nl-Millenniumbug-article.ogg[15].
  • Year 2000 problem's facet of is recorded as 2000[16].
  • Year 2000 problem's described by source is recorded as RFC 2626: The Internet and the Millennium Problem (Year 2000)[17].
  • Year 2000 problem's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/Y2K-bug[18].
  • Year 2000 problem's BBC Things ID is recorded as 032ed2f8-21b0-4021-9160-d261a1a58f0e[19].
  • Year 2000 problem's NE.se ID is recorded as tjugohundraproblemet[20].
  • Year 2000 problem's Treccani Vocabulary ID is recorded as millennium-bug[21].
  • Year 2000 problem's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 29876198[22].
  • Year 2000 problem's De Agostini ID is recorded as millennium+bug[23].
  • Year 2000 problem's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/MillenniumBug[24].
  • Year 2000 problem's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Y2K[25].
  • Year 2000 problem's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007539512505171[26].
  • Year 2000 problem's KBpedia ID is recorded as MillenniumBug[27].

Why It Matters

Year 2000 problem draws 2,363 Wikipedia views per month (time_formatting_and_storage_bugs category, ranking #1 of 4).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 110 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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