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by jmm (276)

One strange thing, our client uses a 1 digit year field which seems very daring :)

During my second work term at university I was fixing the one-digit version of the Y2K concern. (This was in 1970 and the new decade had just triggered some problems.)

This was in the customer records for an oil company. They kept records for a few years of history, but also had to sometimes deal with dates that had a future year (don't deliver any fuel oil to my house next February).

Using mod 10 arithmetic, (up to) five

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