杏吧原创

The world may already have felt the first tremors of computing鈥檚 millennium
bug. In Singapore, 300 taxis were disabled on 1 January when their meters went
blank, while in Sweden an automated payment system and a computer at Gothenburg
airport that issues passports failed. The problems are being blamed on confusion
caused by the use of the digits 鈥�99鈥� in many programs to mark the end of a
computing run, and on advance orders for 2000.