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Re:'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication by ginko on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @09:56AM (#17609229)
At least train tickets show dates in Japanese era years.

Like this one for instance: https://blue-works.com/jprail/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/res...

The date at the bottom left is April 26th of the year Heisei 22 (so 2010)

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Re:'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication by h1d on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @06:57PM (#17613692)
At least it's clear it's not 2022 in 2010 but imagine if they were close... Now we're resetting it down to 1, perhaps no big confusion but still, a pointless system.
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Re:'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication by illirik on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @07:51PM (#17613976)
Is history pointless?
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