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The Long Now blog seems to suggest it's more about reminding devs in the 9990s that if they don't store dates as 5 digit integers they might have a millennium bug!

Feels like the futurist version of expressing your deity's name as G-d.



But it makes it very encouraging to store them as 16 bit integers




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