Regarding the habit of using 2-digit years: in the November 1998
issue of COMPUTER Magazine (IEEE), Neville Holmes' article (p.121-122)
comments
"...two-digit year encoding was adopted in the data-processing
industry long before Konrad Zuse built his first digital computer
in the 1930's. The data-processing industry didn't invent two-digit
year encoding either: The practice was already widespread in the
clerical industry. It's just a highly practical abbreviation that
we use in everyday speech."
John Ehrman (ehrman@vnet.ibm.com)
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