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Re:'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication by pwim on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @11:08AM (#17609841)
Interestingly, sometimes the system is used for future dates. For instance, my drivers license expires in September of H.31, which I guess will never happen now.
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Re:'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication by samatman on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:21PM (#17610429)
Does this imply that the driver's license becomes invalid and must be replaced with one in the new date system?

Real question

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Re:'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication by tonysdg on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:00PM (#17611855)
Or -- perhaps more intriguingly -- given that the date in question will never occur, is it valid until the end of time?

Philosophically it's a rather fun question, but practically they'll probably just honor it until the corresponding date of the new era.

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Re:'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication by h1d on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @06:46PM (#17613612)
It will stay valid. Consider having have to replace millions and millions right after the swap, it will be chaos. The system is simply stupid, not even citizens want it.
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