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My bank's website allowed me to set a recurring monthly transfer until the year 9999. The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates like 02017 in their work. :
by cpeterso 10y ago
My bank's website allowed me to set a recurring monthly transfer until the year 9999.
The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates like 02017 in their work. :)
- yorwba 10y ago> The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates like 02017 in their work. :) Hopefully they don't have any octal-related bugs.
- shortstuffsushi 10y agoProbably only in their front end code.
- hornetblack 10y agoPeople get bans on XBox Live until 9999-12-31 I guess it's probably just an Input validation thing. Also I think it's fair to given most people their account back after that amount of time.
- shthed 10y agoTo really future proof themselves they should have gone with 2.017*10^3 Nobody will care about significant year digits in a few billion years