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Why do you write your years with a leading zero?
by dexwiz 1y ago
Why do you write your years with a leading zero?
- rebolek 1y agoSome people think that writing years as 2025 is wrong because this will lead to problems in year 9999 (y10k bug? I'm not sure if they call it that way) so they decided to introduce leading zero as it would solve something and not just postpone the problem to 99999.
- oharapj 1y agoSomehow both incredibly optimistic and also unbelievably resigned at the same time
- hahn-kev 1y agoThat's silly. The y2k bug was because the year was written as 65, instead of the full year being 1965, so information was lost. Writing 2025 has no missing information.
- thayne 1y agoSo they are assuming that: - this comment will still be around in 8000 years - we will still be using the same calendar system in 8000 years - people 8000 years in the future will leave off the leading 1 of years for some reason, and will use a leading 0 to disambiguate dates from the previous 10000 year period.
- recursivecaveat 1y agoI would say it is a symbolic reminder to care about the long term consequences of our actions. In the same way we have holidays to remind us about the environment or mortality.
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- DonHopkins 1y agoSo you can instantly recognize at a glance that it's Kragen's post! ;) It's a Long Now Foundation thing: slower, deeper, longer. Y10K compliance. https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-and-10k-compliance-at-home/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an... "The present moment used to be the unimaginable future." -Steward Brand "How can we invest in a future we know is structurally incapable of keeping faith with its past? The digital industries must shift from being the main source of society’s ever-shortening attention span to becoming a reliable guarantor of long-term perspective. We’ll know that shift has happened when programmers begin to anticipate the Year 10,000 Problem, and assign five digits instead of four to year dates. 01998 they’ll write, at first frivolously, then seriously." -Steward Brand 10,000 Year Clock: https://longnow.org/clock/ https://longnow.org/clock/
- HackerThemAll 1y ago[flagged]