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Why do they write the years like "01819", "00819"? Never seen that before.
by laurent123456 7y ago
Why do they write the years like "01819", "00819"? Never seen that before.
- Rainymood 7y agoSee footnote [1]: "[1] The Long Now Foundation uses five digit dates to serve as a reminder of the time scale that we endeavor to work in. Since our flagship project, the Clock of the Long Now, is meant to run well past the Gregorian year 10,000, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years."
- gorkish 7y agoThey are however totally cool with the arbitrary year zero, and also never mind the last five billion years or so.
- gorkish 7y agoAccidental zip code formatter.