Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Sec. § 147.003 Computer Date Failure A computer date failure is the inability to correctly process, recognize, store, receive, transmit, or in any way use date data: (1) referring to the year 2000 or affected by the transition between the 20th and 21st century or between 1999 and 2000; or (2) with years expressed in a two-digit or four-digit format. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 128, Sec. 2, eff. May 19, 1999.