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Millenium Dilema

NPR's John McChesney reports that many computers used by government and industry may stop working in the year 2000. The problem has to do with the fact that many of these computers record dates using only the last two digits of the year..and that if you enter zero zero for 2000...many of these machines will get confused.

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