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The Y2K Bug

You're Wrong About

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The Year Two Thousand Was a Leap Year

For years, one of the most vexing problems in like, banking, i t was bucking leap years. And so, famously, the year two thousand was a leap year. But then it should have been because it's a once every 400 century year, because the year 16 hundred was a leapyear. So, like, these kinds of problems, especially in financial nstitutions, like, you know, your entire bank account gets wiped out overnight. These kinds of poblems were being noticed and being fixed by bank it people long before the rest of the country was figuring out about this stuff.

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