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The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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The issue wasn’t using the dates. The issue was the computer believing it was now on those dates.

I’m going to assume you aren’t old enough to remember, but the “only two digits to represent the year” issue predates computers. Lots of paper forms just gave two digits. And a lot of early computer work was just digitising paper forms.

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Scrollone@feddit.it
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I remember paper forms having “19__” in the year field. Good times

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exocrinous@startrek.website
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When I was little I was scared of that problem and always put all four digits of the year in my homework.

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