A range of dates could cause systems to crash - not just 2000, reports Colin Barker
IT users are finding that the date 9 September 1999 can be as much of a problem as 1 January 2000. So can any date in 1998. The year 2038 will be a problem for some systems, as will the year 2001. ...
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