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Subject: RE: Unique doc IDs
From: "Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:34:35 -0400

Actually, dates that encode years as two digits rather than four will
break in "only" 92 years. But if you use four-digit dates, you're good
for 7992 years. What a hedge against planned obsolescence!


From: "Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Subject: RE: Unique doc IDs
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:46:07 +0100

Lauren suggested:

> So use
> four-digit years for documents that will be around in a hundred years.

Four-digit years it is, then. Who wouldn't want to read my manuals in a
hundred years?

Sarah Bouchier
Technical Author

exony

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