4 ms·
The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. https://lon
by mahathu 5y ago
The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years.
https://longnow.org/about/ https://longnow.org/about/
- selfhoster11 5y agoHonestly, a leading zero in human-readable text is a non-solution. Year numbers are variable length decimal strings, not a four or five digit fixed length field. Any historian concerned with 6 AD-999 AD will likely not include a leading zero in any year figures they use. I don't see why the people of the present or the future should do any different. Machine readable implementations, sure. Have as many digits as you wish. But for human written material, it just looks weird.
- mattl 5y agoThey also promote NFTs, so I have lost my respect for them. https://twitter.com/longnow/status/1436364868131586054 https://twitter.com/longnow/status/1436364868131586054