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From: Erik Naggum <cl@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Y2K again
Date: 1998/05/20
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* Aaron Gross
| What if there were no computers?  Would you still insist that we not
| abbreviate years?

  yes, of course.  that is precisely my point.

  let me turn your question around and ask what is the problem with writing
  a year in full?  why do you _have_ to abbreviate it?

#:Erik
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