Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...?

• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Grr. Is THAT why I had to subtract 1900 off my year for a damn c library time function?

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