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j16sdiz
on Feb 6, 2022
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The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous t...
Wikipedia say Roman empire falls at 395AD, not 0395AD. Text comments are not COBOL, we don't need zero-padding in daily communication.
umanwizard
on Feb 6, 2022
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Good point. So he has actually created a year 99999 format where there wasn’t one before by changing an arbitrary-sized format into a fixed-width one.
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