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It's not clear to me why anyone in 2000 would choose 20 as the pivot year, unless they were working on a system that needed to regard 1921. Why wouldn't a parki
by MockObject 7y ago
It's not clear to me why anyone in 2000 would choose 20 as the pivot year, unless they were working on a system that needed to regard 1921. Why wouldn't a parking meter or subway system pivot at, say 1990?
- gweinberg 7y ago1970 seems to me to be the logical pivot year. Because epoch.
- phire 7y agoWe will probably see this minor annoyance pop up again every "nice round number" for the next 70 years. 2025, 2030, 2040, 2050, 2060, 2075, 2080, 2090. Every developer will have picked some random round number that made logical sense to them.