Resumen
All information systems will go berserk when the year 2000 comes, the so-called date crisis everyone is talking about. Dates in most information systems are stored in the form MM/DD/YY. That's not a problem for months or days, of course. Even though most people say "the 90s" and in many other ways use years as if two digits were enough, we're approaching 2000, when two digits simply aren't sufficient to do the job. No matter how-or if-an enterprise solves its year-2000 date crisis, another one is coming. And the form of the solution chosen for this particular crisis may determine when the next crisis will occur. There is no permanent solution to the date crisis. Whereas months of the year recycle after 12, and days of the months recycle after about 30, years just keep marching on toward infinity. And computers with their finite word lengths cannot hold them forever. The Unix operating system apparently has its own built-in date crisis ticking away like a time bomb, and it's difficult to predict precisely when this particular bomb is going to explode.