By the way, don't tell the Y2K folks we're ignoring the first two digits of a four-digit year.

顺便说一下，应该告诉那些研究y 2k的人您省略了年份的前两位数。

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A two-digit year that is greater than the last two digits of the cutoff year is in the century that precedes the cutoff year.

而一个比截止年份的后两位数字大的两位数年份所处的世纪比与该截止年份所处的世纪要早。

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A two-digit year that is less than or equal to the last two digits of the cutoff year is in the same century as the cutoff year.

一个比截止年份的后两位数字小或者与其相等的两位数年份与该截止年份处于同一个世纪。

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For anyone who has been in seclusion in the High Sierras for the last several years and missed the hype, the Year 2000 computer bug, or Y2K as acronym-enamored technologists like to call it, is the result of a computer programming convention that represents dates with only two digits for the year.

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The problem is that older computers used only two digits to denote the year so that 1999 would be represented by '99.

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