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.
這個聽起來像是一場計算機的災(zāi)難——如另一個千年蟲——但是如果我們的行動足夠快，它未必如此，這裡存在一個解決方案。
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.
出版後的兩個星期、大概150次的採訪之後，我的第一本書——《千年蟲》，登上了紐約時報最暢銷書的行列，而且在這個位置呆了超過七個月的時間。
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，人們最擔(dān)心的是千年蟲問題，這種“虛幻”的危機促使美聯(lián)儲拼命印鈔以便讓各個公司能夠陞級自己的軟件。

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