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The deca-millennium bug describes a possible future breakdown of software architectures when the (Western year turns from 9999 to 10000 in any system time of computers. The problem would occur in the very beginns of the 10th millennium causing software and hardware breakdowns.

It has been proposed (Long Now Foundation among others) to write the years with a "0" prefix to prevent such breakdown, so the year "2009" would be written as "02009". As such, computer programmes would use the system accordingly.

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Category:Operating system technology Category:Software engineering disasters Category:Programming bugs Category:Future problems