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    9 months ago

    The issue wasn’t using the dates. The issue was the computer believing it was now on those dates.

    I’m going to assume you aren’t old enough to remember, but the “only two digits to represent the year” issue predates computers. Lots of paper forms just gave two digits. And a lot of early computer work was just digitising paper forms.