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ISO8601 date format will have Y10K bug.
by silon42 5y ago
ISO8601 date format will have Y10K bug.
- selfhoster11 5y agoY10K's runway is far larger than many people's lifespans.
- jtbayly 5y agoCurious which people are the exception!
- px43 5y agoThere's actually a whole lot of people who have never died, so the data isn't in on that one quite yet.
- selfhoster11 5y agoNot to mention the stupendously low amount of data available on unpredictable future medical breakthroughs that may or may not result in delaying death.
- scandinavian 5y ago> Y10K I appreciate the optimism regarding the long-term survival of the human race.
- mywittyname 5y agoThere's a chance of holocene/human era becoming a mainstream calendaring system. Whether that chance is greater than the chance of the human race lasting another 8000 years; I'm not sure.
- phkahler 5y ago>> 8000 years I think rather than cooking ourselves we are actually going to bring about the end of the holocene sooner than it would normally have happened. something seams to reach a tipping point at the end of each interglacial period. I like to imagine we can stop that via nuclear excavation of Panama ;-) https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/2014/06/30/what-started-the-ice-ages-panama/?sh=6d024d631eb1 https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/2014/06/30/what-sta...
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- avnigo 5y agoThe four-digit year is only prescribed as a minimum by the standard.
- silon42 5y agoYes, but the "sorting" feature will break.