time shifting

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time shifting - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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 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)