millennium bug

基本解释

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.
这个听起来像是一场计算机的灾难——如另一个千年虫——但是如果我们的行动足够快，它未必如此，这里存在一个解决方案。
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.
出版后的两个星期、大概150次的采访之后，我的第一本书——《千年虫》，登上了纽约时报最畅销书的行列，而且在这个位置呆了超过七个月的时间。
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.
那时，人们最担心的是千年虫问题，这种“虚幻”的危机促使美联储拼命印钞以便让各个公司能够升级自己的软件。

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