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So what year is it? 11:47 - Dec 31 with 1590 views

Years ago I remember being part of a management team being briefed on our company IT project re the millennium "bug" and was castigated for pointing out the millennium was a Christian landmark date, asking what was the date in China, Japan and Israel examining a selection of pre-Christian civilisations.r

It was a genuine question, though I suspected it related to English being the world's business language, albeit US version.

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So what year is it?

Is the Muslim calendar the most accurate to a commencement at an actual date?

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All computers use a simple western date at lowest level. Well they only actually stored the right most 2 digits for the year and ticking over to 00 was the perceived issue.

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Questions like this make me wish for a better future.

If only there was some event that signified the future.

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So what year is it? on 15:48 - Dec 31 by lurcher
All computers use a simple western date at lowest level. Well they only actually stored the right most 2 digits for the year and ticking over to 00 was the perceived issue.

Except that since then I discovered dates are stored as a 5(?) Digit number that relate to the number of days since a particular IBM system went live.

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Back in 1999 a presentation about the Y2K project in what is now DWP explained how they'd been able to dodge any issues in the mainframes which contained benefit and NI details.

The base date in those wasn't 1900, but 1852. The reason? When first building the system they took a date ten years before the birth of the oldest person recorded on the system. Bear in mind the system records not only the living but also the dead, although I imagine the records of the latter are now weeded out periodically.

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So what year is it? on 16:48 - Dec 31 by Pendejo
Except that since then I discovered dates are stored as a 5(?) Digit number that relate to the number of days since a particular IBM system went live.

Unix operating systems represent time by the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on 1st January 1970.

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