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The Y2K bug was supposed to happen January 1, 2000.

Many computer applications stored dates with only two digits for the year. For example, December 31, 1999, was stored as 12-31-99. The problem was that the following day, January 1, 2000, would be 01-01-00, which would appear to be before any other dates in the system, causing confusion and errors.

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