Resumen
The article focuses on the millennium bug problem in interactive services which is due to occur at the year-end of 2000. The article illustrates that there are several practical examples showing that interactive services like banking or airline reservations cannot inherently be realized by non-interactive or Turing machine systems. In dealing with the Y2K problem computer users take each system report of a correct date as a confirming instance of the hypothesis that the system's reported date is always correct. What the Y2K problem shows is that correct time observations were not confirming instances of this hypothesis at all, but rather one where "date" terms were unknowingly temporally qualified. The result of the computing community's byte parsimony is a multitude of computing systems that will not, in the normal course of things, roll over to 2000 at the end of this century. The genesis of the Y2K problem is seen to be an instance of the "new riddle of induction." It results from the mistaken belief that a computer date stamp is projectable, that is the confirmation of a hypothesis. The root cause of the present malady is byte conservation. In retrospect, a viable solution to the Y2K problems was to have been found in geochronology all along, which has been presented in the article.