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		Sohcahtoa82 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm just having fun 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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