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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by r2_pilot on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:23AM (#30229741)
He's representing the year numeral as YYYYY to avoid a Year 9999 problem and make it into a Year 99999 problem instead. (see The Long Now and other long-term thinking projects)
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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by j16sdiz on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:13AM (#30229950)
Wikipedia say Roman empire falls at 395AD, not 0395AD. Text comments are not COBOL, we don't need zero-padding in daily communication.
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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by umanwizard on Sunday February 06, 2022 @03:55AM (#30230617)
Good point. So he has actually created a year 99999 format where there wasn’t one before by changing an arbitrary-sized format into a fixed-width one.
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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by bruce511 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:39AM (#30230057)
So, to be clear, he is worried that in 7000 years time it's the _date_ part of his comment that will be hard for a human, or computer, to parse?

While English from 1000 years ago would be unintelligible to most of us now...

And how long is HN gonna keep these threads? I was worried about the NSA but now I'm worried about dang.

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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by oblio on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:41AM (#30230062)
Are you surprised that on HN, of all places, we find a date format pedant? :-D
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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by jacquesm on Sunday February 06, 2022 @08:35AM (#30232350)
And a wrong one, at that.
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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by kragen on Sunday February 06, 2022 @09:38AM (#30232864)
My opinions are always wrong but sometimes less wrong than others.
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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by CRConrad on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @11:39PM (#30282511)
> My opinions are always wrong but sometimes less wrong than others.

"My opinions are always wrong but some times less wrong than others."

There, FTFY. Now it makes sense: Some times they're less wrong than other times.

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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by CRConrad on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @11:40PM (#30282512)
> So, to be clear, he is worried that in 7000 years time it's the _date_ part of his comment that will be hard for a human, or computer, to parse?

In eight thousand years.

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