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		smilliken 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm just having fun You're going to look silly in 8000 years!

Sohcahtoa82 2 days ago [–]

Why would they look silly?

We don't refer to the year 700 as 0700. Tt'll be perfectly natural in 8000 years to see "10025" for the year.

floren 20 hours ago | [–]

But it will be very marginally more challenging to correctly sort string representations of years!

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