Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...?
julianh@lemm.ee 7 months ago
People already abbreviate to the last two digits when appropriate, so it’s not hard to imagine people doing the same for bigger numbers.
For keeping track of stuff electronically, we’re pretty much set too. 64 bit unix time will take us well over 100 billion years.
argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I was looking at some old pictures of my family and some of them had dates like 921 for 1921 in them. I used to abbreviate 88 for 1988, but I’ve never seen people using 3 digits like that.
AA5B@lemmy.world 7 months ago
During y2k, a third digit was one of the compromises for languages like Perl. There were so many places that only displayed a two digit year but rolling over to 00 would have made it difficult to sort or do date math, or even to convert to a four digit year. So the year rolled over from 99 to 100, so dates with two digit years could be sorted correctly. If you were only displaying two digits, it probably correctly displayed as 00. If you wanted to convert to four digit years,just add 1900
hddsx@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Grr. Is THAT why I had to subtract 1900 off my year for a damn c library time function?