9999 BUG

n.

A potential computer software problem where a program might confuse the date September 9, 1999 (9/9/99) with "9999," the end-of-file code in some older programming languages.

"Three decades ago, programmers inserted '9999' to indicate the end of a file or data transfer. . . .The worry is that computers still working with old COBOL or FORTRAN software will misread all those nines as permission to stop everything in its tracks.

Most technology experts agree that the9999 bugwill not bite."

— Murray Campbell, "Today's 9999 glitch a drill for Y2K bug,"The Globe and Mail, September 9, 1999

2000-compliant

D10K problem

doomsdate

leper list

TEOTWAWKI

Y2.038K bug

Y2K leap year bug

Y2K problem

Y2OK

Programming and Software

Time