August 21, 1999 Global Positioning System (GPS) calendars rollover. Early GPS systems only had at 1,024-week calendar. After this date, the counter resets from week 1,024 to week 0,000. September 9, 1999 The date 9/9/99 was used by many early computer programmers to indicate the end of file. October 1, 1999 Many governments will begin fiscal year 2000. December 31, 1999 This is the date that indicated "never expire" on old IBM mainframe tapes. January 1, 2000 Computer programs and hardware that store dates in 2-digit year format may think the date is 1/1/1900. January 3, 2000 The first U.S. workday of the year 2000. February 29, 2000 A leap-year day in a year evenly divisible by 100 (which aren't usually leap years). Details are posted to http://itrain.org/itinfo/1998/dg981229.html January 1, 2001 The first day of the third millennium in the Christian calendar. February 6, 2040 Early Macintosh date and time utility will fail to calculate further. January 18, 2034 UNIX date systems may fail. January 1, 2046 Amiga computer system clocks fail. January 1, 2108 MS-DOS system clocks fail. This is 2^7 year's since 1980. January 1, 10000 Y10K problem. 4-digit year calendars overflow January 1, 29602 Windows NT file system fails due to date problems. January 1, 29940 Current Macintosh systems will experience date calculation failure. January 1, 292271023 Java clocks fail