Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > 1: This happens once a century.
Actually, once a decade as we are allowing the reduction of the year to a single digit... > 2: Since the rest of the world uses a logical, and at least sortable, > dd/mm/yy format, ... Correct, but irrelevant... > ... for most of the world it will happen in August. ..._if_ we were talking about dates expressed in that format either the bonkers US/North American mm/dd/yy or "most of the world, sane" dd/mm/yy format would render the year as "09" and the "magic" breaks regardless of where you live, and a "once a decade" event is not that rare, and hence not "newsworthy". This is one of those "made up by an idjit" things that doesn't play how its "inventor" thinks, at least _IF_ one bothers thinking about it at all rather than just repeating it ab idiotum (if you'll excuse my pseudo Latin)... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.