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Study Finds Y2K Scare Led to Improvements.(technology upgrades)(Brief Article)

Government Finance Review

| February 01, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Government Finance Officers Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Most state governments have improved their information technology systems as a result of the Y2K bug. States worked for years to avoid the Y2K bug, a glitch that involved the inability of some computers to recognize "00" as shorthand for the year 2000, reading it as 1900. Governments, businesses, and individuals spent more than $100 billion to update and repair their computers. In the end, 2000 dawned with no major glitches, but states found themselves with loads of ...

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