A technique used to work around problems due to the ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Year 2000">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)
