Now in fairness, that particular problem kind of happened because so many companies ended up running so much code for many more years than the programmers actually thought they would be running it, but the idea is still the same.

公平起见，那个问题有时会发生,因为实际上，很多企业在这么多年里运行了,比程序员多得多的代码,虽然他们将运行它，但那个构想还是一样的。

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And this is a little different from what happened ten or so years ago, but the so-called Y2K problem was essentially the result of programmers not really having the foresight to realize, "Maybe we shouldn't use so few bits or so few digits to represent a year because eventually this will be a problem."

这个跟10年前发生的事情有点不一样,那个所谓的“Y2K“问题,本质上的结果是,程序员没有真实地预见和认识到，“可能我们没必要用到这些位数或数字,来表示一年，但是最终这个将会,是个问题“

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