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Didn't we learn our lesson 24 years ago with Y2K!?
EDIT: To be clear, I was being facetious. I remember my parents and father freaking out about this when I was in middle school. I would have thought we got this taken care of permanently already
Yes, that's why we are patching
The data lost that occurred due to the lack of differentiation between year 1900 and 2000 on calendar systems of the older computers?
This mistake was made in the 70s when time was added to UNIX (or maybe already with Multics, idk)