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From: hulsebos@philmds.UUCP (Rob Hulsebos)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Dates (was American vs. European numerical usage)
Message-ID: <764@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 07:27:43 GMT
References: <3900@enea.se> <1785@water.waterloo.edu> <183@dcs.UUCP> <126@jetson.UPMA.MD.US>
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In article <183@dcs.UUCP>, wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
> I don't think [the turn of the century] will cause major confusion.
> The world weathered the last turn of the century, too, didn't it?

I once saw a computer-system in which only the last two digits of the
year of birth could be entered. This worked fine until somebody
born near the end of the 19th century showed up.

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