I get your point, but in the same way that people “shouldn’t” have been using two digits for year storage, there are certainly many parsers of ISO 8601 that don’t match the spec. In 8,000 years I don’t think this will be a problem though lol. I don’t think we can really perceive what technology might be like that far in the future. But, hypothetically, is year 10,000 was in a few days and this was year 9,999 I would suspect we’d see at least some problems come January.
I mean, that’s exactly what programmers in the '70s thought. That there would be no way in hell that their crap code would still be in use going onto 2000.
Thing is, copy/paste is always going to be easier than writing new code and that’s only going to get worse as chat bots start coding for us.
I get your point, but in the same way that people “shouldn’t” have been using two digits for year storage, there are certainly many parsers of ISO 8601 that don’t match the spec. In 8,000 years I don’t think this will be a problem though lol. I don’t think we can really perceive what technology might be like that far in the future. But, hypothetically, is year 10,000 was in a few days and this was year 9,999 I would suspect we’d see at least some problems come January.
As an example, YAML 1.2 changed Boolean representation to only be case insensitive in 2009, but in 2022 people still complain about the 1.1 version. (Caveat: I don’t know if this person actually ran into a “real” problem or only a hypothetical one.)
I mean, that’s exactly what programmers in the '70s thought. That there would be no way in hell that their crap code would still be in use going onto 2000.
Thing is, copy/paste is always going to be easier than writing new code and that’s only going to get worse as chat bots start coding for us.