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what is 02012 and why write it so strange?

• namibj 1y ago
  They want to feel like they matter in over 10k years from now, where a 4-digit year would start to wrap.
  • zahlman 1y ago
    In fact that will be not even 8k years from now.
    • sigwinch 1y ago
      I’ll be very embarrassed when I’m still writing 9999 on my checks.
• ahoka 1y ago
  Obviously it's octal and the person is a time traveler from the 11th century.
• will4274 1y ago
  It's the long now foundation thing. The long now foundation encourages writing years with five digits to encourage readers to think about long term planning, to plan for a future of humanity that is measured in more than thousands of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
• dredmorbius 1y ago
  <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45505856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45505856> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43463920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43463920> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39175614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39175614>