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French: codage de l'année

English translation: Year coding



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French term or phrase:codage de l'année
English translation:Year coding
Entered by:Dianne Holmes Brown
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Bus/Financial - Computers: Systems, Networks / policy in building trade
French term or phrase: codage de l'année
"Dysfonctionnement imputable au codage de l'année :
• pour les matériels électroniques et informatiques ou plus généralement des biens utilisant des circuits intégrés, des microprocesseurs ou des composants similaires, le fait de ne pas pouvoir continuer, en raison du codage de l'année, à assurer l'intégralité des fonctions"
Dianne Holmes Brown
France
Clarification request(s) and response
Dianne Holmes Brown: 6:10pm Mar 5, 2008: Closing question to change field to computers...
Tony M: 11:27pm Mar 5, 2008: Dianne, there's no need to close and re-post, that field can be edited...

Year coding
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Neil Crockford
United Kingdom
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many thanks to all
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +5Year codingNeil Crockford
3year formatting
Tomás O'Connor


  


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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Year coding

Explanation:
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Neil Crockford
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
many thanks to all

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree writeaway: (fwiw-I saw 'coding' twice. my error).
9 mins

agree Eric BILLY: to writeaway: better "year coding" than "encoding", as encoding is today mostly used to speak about music or video compression or conversion. In addition, we usually say "coding pages/html etc" than "encoding"
1 hr
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agree cmwilliams: yes, didn't this originally come up in 2000 and the possible problems caused by two-digit year coding?
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agree Tony M: Yes, it's definitely 'coding' rather than 'ENcoding'
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agree JOHN A
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1 day20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
year formatting

Explanation:
year formatting might also be possible here, if this is in
reference to problems such as the y2k where the issue
of whether the year is stored in a 2 or 4 digit format arise.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bug...
Tomás O'Connor
Ireland
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