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Re:Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real? by choward on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:51PM (#22559623)
Wouldn't it be this?

    date="200$year"
Or does foxpro somehow know to zero pad a 1 digit number?
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Re:Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real? by jaywalk on Thursday March 12, 2020 @02:29PM (#22560042)
It's been a very long time since I've worked with dBASE/FoxPro, but from what I remember it stores data in a fixed-width format. So for a column to store an integer, it will zero pad the front of it to fit the width of the column.
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