millennium bug

基本解釋

But while this sounds like a complete disaster -- another Millennium Bug -- it need not be, and there is a solution, if we all act quickly enough.
這個(gè)聽(tīng)起來(lái)像是一場(chǎng)計(jì)算機(jī)的災(zāi)難——如另一個(gè)千年蟲(chóng)——但是如果我們的行動(dòng)足夠快，它未必如此，這里存在一個(gè)解決方案。
Two months after it’s publication—and about 150 interviews later—The Millennium Bug, my first book, hit the New York Times Business Bestseller List where it stayed for over seven months.
出版后的兩個(gè)星期、大概150次的采訪之后，我的第一本書(shū)——《千年蟲(chóng)》，登上了紐約時(shí)報(bào)最暢銷書(shū)的行列，而且在這個(gè)位置呆了超過(guò)七個(gè)月的時(shí)間。
This was an era when people seriously fretted about the Millennium Bug, a phantom crisis that prompted the Fed to make money cheaply available so companies could upgrade their corporate software.
那時(shí)，人們最擔(dān)心的是千年蟲(chóng)問(wèn)題，這種“虛幻”的危機(jī)促使美聯(lián)儲(chǔ)拼命印鈔以便讓各個(gè)公司能夠升級(jí)自己的軟件。

Most of these changes would have been necessary at some stage, with or without the millennium bug.
ECONOMIST: Who’s to pay for Y2K?
The government has also been quietly monitoring popular fears about the millennium bug.
ECONOMIST: Millennium party-poopers
Past winners include metrosexual, millennium bug and chad, as in hanging chad.
NPR: Word of the Year: Subprime

any software problem arising from the change in date at the start of the 21st century 21