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You can fight back by cramming two extra digits into any paper form demanding you express years in this manner.
by tjpnz 8y ago
You can fight back by cramming two extra digits into any paper form demanding you express years in this manner.
- contingencies 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 is elegant because it solves the US/UK date ordering conflict and simultaneously renormalizes for most-to-least significant (which has been standard in the Far East for thousands of years). Depoliticizing time is a good thing(TM). See also: use of BCE suffix in dates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era and the total mess that is attempting to express to a human the actual meaning of an entry in the TZ database. http://tz.iana.narkive.com/QuK9m7tT/tz-proposal-for-a-modern-collapsed-namespace http://tz.iana.narkive.com/QuK9m7tT/tz-proposal-for-a-modern...