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What caused the Y2K problem?

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  1. Clocks that could not show midnight
  2. Computers running out of memory in 2000
  3. Years stored as two digits to save memory

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  1. US Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem report (GPO, S. Prt. 106-10) govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CPRT-106sprt10/pdf/GPO-CPRT-106sprt10-6-1.pdf Checked 2026-10-10.

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