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Back then it was quite common to only care about two-digit years, and by implication only years from the 20th century. This kind of feature[1] lead to many pot

by eCa 5y ago

Back then it was quite common to only care about two-digit years, and by implication only years from the 20th century. This kind of feature[1] lead to many potential Y2K bugs. [1] Which it shares with Perl and probably many other languages.

jameshart 5y ago
"Back then" for Javascript was 1995. The phrase "millennium bug" was already well established in the public mind by then.