4 Jan
1999
4 Jan
'99
1 p.m.
Jim Strickland <jim(a)calico.litterbox.com> wrote:
It seems hard to believe (in retrospect) that people
really did
deliberately build software with only 2 digit years.
Oh, and one other reason: people were accustomed to only writing two digit
years when they dated things. It was natural to enter things into computers
in the same way. And it was natural to store the data in the same format
(or at least a similar format) to what the user entered.
Eric