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rom1v | 4 months ago

Are the years intended to be read in octal?

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kijin|4 months ago

According to javascript, 01971 is just 1971. Meanwhile, 01671 is 953.

kragen|4 months ago

Man! JS never stops trolling you.

nappy-doo|4 months ago

It's one of these Long Now things. The goal is to get people to think in long term time frames.

drfuchs|4 months ago

That’s a ZipCode.

walkabout|4 months ago

They’re intended to derail every thread that includes them into discussions about this stupid date format, thus wasting lifetimes of person-hours.

It’s surely an effort by misanthropes who want the worst for humanity. If it’s coming from any benign motivation, then it’s totally misguided.

dinkelberg|4 months ago

I'm sorry, but this reads somewhat misanthropical itself. Let people have some fun?