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> 01974 People from the year 100000 might be offended by this notation. But in seriousness, what is the extra 0 for? Even without it, 1974 and 10000 are perfec
by Aardwolf 5y ago
> 01974
People from the year 100000 might be offended by this notation. But in seriousness, what is the extra 0 for? Even without it, 1974 and 10000 are perfectly distinguishable, and for computers good methods to store long dates use binary storage formats, so amount of ASCII decimal digits doesn't matter there
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- sitkack 5y agoIt is for Y10k compliance, https://longnow.org/ideas/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-and-10k-compliance-at-home/ https://longnow.org/ideas/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-di...