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Article #22Re: Year 2000
From: Another casualty of applied meta...
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:21
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:21
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cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) writes:
>Dates in FITS are stored using two digits for the year. Has anyone thought
>about what happens in 2000?
Sure; dates show up as 01/01/00, for example. Personally, my software is
designed to interpret a two-digit date between 1970 and 2069; considering
this site was built in 1969, it seemed a reasonable choice. You could, of
course, choose a different start date. Eventually, it will break, but I
suspect it will be obsolete before then.
-G.
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