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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by SoftTalker on Saturday January 14, 2023 @07:14PM (#34385440)
> I'd really hate to have to learn a new calendar system.

Don’t worry, we aren’t changing the Earth’s orbit in your lifetime.

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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by worldsayshi on Saturday January 14, 2023 @08:18PM (#34385810)
I'd be a bit disappointed if in a hundred years there were still software developers making exasperated sighs whenever a change were to be introduced in a date standard.

Unless technological civilization collapses it seems a bit odd that we'd still need date standards in a hundred years.

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