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Re:Do not use 'week year': YYYY by eCa on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @08:55AM (#29794731)
Back then it was quite common to only care about two-digit years, and by implication only years from the 20th century.

This kind of feature[1] lead to many potential Y2K bugs.

[1] Which it shares with Perl and probably many other languages.

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Re:Do not use 'week year': YYYY by jameshart on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @10:00AM (#29795450)
"Back then" for Javascript was 1995. The phrase "millennium bug" was already well established in the public mind by then.
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