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From: jay@ncspm.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Sorting by date (was: Tracking Al Einstein)
Message-ID: <501@ncspm.ncsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 14:38:15 EST
Article-I.D.: ncspm.501
Posted: Mon Nov  9 14:38:15 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Nov-87 01:36:47 EST
References: <151@heurikon.UUCP> <11630005@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <3013@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: jay@ncspm.UUCP (Jay Smith)
Organization: Crop Science Dept., North Carolina State University
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Summary: and what of leap years?

In article <3013@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>In article <11630005@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) writes:
>> ISO standard stating that the "correct" display format is 19XX MM DD?
>
>	Boy, talk about built-in obsolescence!  What's going to happen in
>another 12 years and 2 months?

And what about in 112 years and three months when all those electronic
calendars decide that 2100 is a leap year?  I have yet to see one that
doesn't assume that leap years occur EVERY four years.  We're really
just lucky that the next NN00 year happens to be one in which the NN
is evenly divisible by four.  Yeah, I know, the e-calendars will all
be replaced by then 2100.

And what about in 8012 years when the five digit years start?  It's
never too early to plan for the future.

This reminds me of all the software written for addresses with
five-digit ZIP codes, and that tries to make two-letter abbreviations
out of names of countries.  I've seen computer-printed mail returned
to the university with addresses like:

Johann Deutsch
Bonn, WG 00000

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