Year 2011 problem

Uses your system voice; voice and rate in settings.

Snapshot

≈ 2 min read

Names in other languages

No names in other languages are held for this entry yet.

Article bodies are English and are not machine-translated. A name in another language is not a translation of the article.

The year 2011 problem or the Y1C problem ( ) was a potential problem involving computers and computer systems in Taiwan in the night of 31 December 2010 and 1 January 2011. Similar to the year 2000 problem faced by much of the world in the lead-up to 2000, the year 2011 problem is a side effect of Taiwan's use of the Republic of China calendar for official purposes. This calendar is based on the founding of the Republic of China in 1912 (year 1), so the year 2011 on the Gregorian calendar corresponds to year 100 on Taiwan's official calendar, which posed potential problems for any program that only treats years as two-digit values.

Reported problems

As most Taiwanese had anticipated the problem after the year 2000 problem, the Y1C computer bug impact was minimal. Many computers were already using a three-digit system for dates, with a zero being used as the first digit for years below 100 (Gregorian 2010 or earlier). Some government documents such as driver's licenses already refer to years over 100; nothing more than minor glitches were reported. Some iPhone users reported that their alarm tool failed to function on 1 January 2011.

References

External links

Minguo Year 100 Problem Service Web (Traditional Chinese Only)

Text derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343811771 under CC BY-SA 4.0; modifications have been made.