Problems With Data Representation
Unlike the Y2K problem, where significant digits were omitted from the stored values of years, fixing the Year 10,000 problem does not require updating old records (assuming they are already Y2K compliant), since all four significant digits are present. It only requires that record storage in decimal be able to store five or more digits.
There is, however, a potential problem with record sets that make use of lexical sorting. For example, representations of dates in the range 10,000-19,999 would appear interlaced with dates in the range 1000-1999 rather than after the year 9999.
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