That's kind of the point of software archeology, isn't it? Sometimes something so evident to people within the first few hundred years becomes opaque in reasoni

That's kind of the point of software archeology, isn't it? Sometimes something so evident to people within the first few hundred years becomes opaque in reasoning later on, and what's 5 months anyway? You'd need a Rosetta stone to be sure you were even off in time, otherwise you just might have a few missing months that historians couldn't account for.