As computers use 0 & 1. Will the date 10-10-10 or indeed 01-01-10 or even 10-01-10 etc cause trouble like '99
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Yes.the world will end and there's nothing anyone can do about it..we're all going to be killed by a mad computer and it's deadly viral infections..god save us all..WE'RE DOOMED.
No.
Not even slightly. Binary numbers aren't linked to dates and vice versa. Hell, most software stores dates as serial numbers, so everything will be fine.
The short answer is "No".
Computers use a LOT of 0's and 1's. The problem with '99 was that Bill Gates decided to use only two digits for the year. Therefore, when it was 1999, the computers thought it was 1999. But then the next year, they would've thought it was 1900. That's what all of the fuss was about. Most computers these days have four digits for the year.
There are still some programs out there that use other methods for storing dates. These will have to be addressed by their owners before they reach their own "Y2K". But those are nothing that you (or 99.999% of the population) should have to worry about.
no. the problem with the year 1999 changing to 2000 was not the day and month it was the software that held the dates. the software only had 2 fields for a year so instead of 1999 it showed 99. the problem was that when 1999 goes to 2000, the software that only holds 2 year fields would think 1999 changed back to 1900 since there was no other way to specify the increase beyond 100 with only 2 characters.
0 & 1 refers to binary values. The characters 1 and 0 that you enter are converted to binary so no problems with dates etc.
Simple answer is NO
Software are written to take account of these things IF they would cause problems.
No. The whole reason 99 caused a problem was because the computer programmers didn't have enough foreseight to give the computer more than two spots to store the date, so after 1999 came 1900.
What trouble. the only trouble was with paranoid human doomsayers, and no there will be no trouble with computers on January first 2010.
No there will be no effect. First of all computers use 1's and 0's as in binary not base 10. The date's you are saying are in terms of base 10. "10" in binary actually means 2 base ten. Second computers don't always use 1's and 0's to mean a number. A one or zero usually represents an encoding scheme determined by which bit and a combination of logic.
01-01-01 is already past. So my answer is 10-10-10 will create no problems.
Computers keep track of dates by counting days from a base date to the desired date, so each of the dates you cite would be unique. The Y2K fiasco resulted from our abbreviation of the year to the last two digits.. Entering 00 for a year would be interpreted as the year 1900. Subtracting a previous year then resulted in a negative number.
No, this will not be a problem, after all, we have survived the dates 01/01/01, 10/01/01, and so on.
nope what gave you a idea ike that?
dates are stored in 'special' codes that map to all the dates
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