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YMD is only plausible if the first number is 2-digits or 4-digits. How is "1" a year? Unless we're talking about 1AD...
by jjnoakes 10y ago
YMD is only plausible if the first number is 2-digits or 4-digits. How is "1" a year? Unless we're talking about 1AD...
- dragonwriter 10y ago> YMD is only plausible if the first number is 2-digits or 4-digits. How is "1" a year? During the first decade of the 21st Century, I regularly encountered dates, especially handwritten, with single digit years, because some people first reduce to a two-digit year when writing dates, but then -- as with any other number -- leave off leading zeros.
- coldpie 10y agoReally? I don't think I've ever seen this, though I guess I don't deal with a lot of handwritten dates.
- jjnoakes 10y agoThe date in question ("1/5/10") was formatted by a computer, so hand-written dates seem pretty far off topic. But even ignoring that, I've never ever seen a single person write a single-digit year. Not alone ("I graduated in 1" vs "I graduated in 2001"), not in dates ("August 7, 1" vs "August 7, 2001"), not anywhere.
- qw 10y agoThe single digits in the date are not prefixed with a zero. So "1" could be interpreted as 2001. Why would the first digit be prefixed with zero but not the middle digit ("5").