In many computer systems around the world, software has been written to store and manipulate dates using only two digits for the year. Now that we're about to enter a new century, these dates have to be changed to four digits. To solve the problem, we just need to hire computer programmers to find the dates and change them all. Easier said than done, unfortunately.
理論上來說，Y2K 問題，不過就是電腦日期中的年份，必須由現行的兩欄改為四欄，資訊工程師只要將程式碼中的日期符號一個個搜尋出來改正就好了。