WHAT ERRORS WILL OCCUR?
Most often, computers aren’t instructed that “98” is an abbreviation for “1998”. Some software instructs the computer that “99” is the highest possible value, to be followed by a return to “00”. Some software instructs the computer that 99 is a number, that should be followed by 100. Some software doesn’t provide any explicit instruction to the computer about what comes after “99”. In some cases, software does command the computer to treat “98” as an abbreviation of “1998”. Usually this instruction is performed by inserting the characters “19” in front of the “98”. Other types of software tell the computer to add 1900 + 98. There are cases when the addition method will work as well in 2000 as it does now, *IF* the software tells the computer that 99 is a number, followed by 100. In these instances, adding the number 1900 to the number 100 will correctly produce the number, 2000. In many cases, though, the software instructions to the computer will result in an incorrect year of “00”, o
