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		tonyedgecombe 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm just having fun The other one that I find jarring is putting a zero in front of the year. I down vote it every time I see it.

smilliken 4 months ago [–]

You're going to look silly in 8000 years!

Sohcahtoa82 4 months 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 4 months ago | | [–]

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

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