time shifting

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 databasemanagement 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)