TIME SHIFTING


Meaning of TIME SHIFTING in English

< programming > A technique used to work around problems due to the Year 2000 and the "millennium bug". Time shifting involves translating date fields in a database back by a fixed number of years to avoid year 2000 problems with the database management system .

Typically dates are shifted back 28 years so that the occurrence of leap years and days of the week match with the actual year.

(2003-08-15)

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