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[edit] Consolidate far-future pages

I think the year 10,000 and beyond deserve an entry; they elicit thought about interesting computer science issues including planning for unlikely occurrences and designing for bug-resistance. I do think, however, that the page should be named (and include) "Year 10,000 problem and beyond". It can include interesting factoids of the sort interesting to info-holics such as "how many leap seconds will there have been by the time we face the year 10,000 problem? 100,000?". Inquiring minds want to know! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kennita728 (talk • contribs) 07:25, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Possible references

  • "We'll know the shift has happened when programmers begin to anticipate the Year 10000 problem and assign five digits instead of four to year dates." from The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility
    By Stewart Brand
    Published 1999
    Basic Books
    Time
    190 pages
    ISBN 0465007805.
  • Also a brief mention in Accounting Principles
    By Philip E. Fess, Clifford Rollin Niswonger, Carl S. Warren
  • and in College Accounting
    By John Ellis Price, Horace R. Brock.

(from Google Books search) --Coppertwig (talk) 04:08, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] No 31/12/1899

=DATE(0,1,0) gives 0/01/1900 if you -1 from that the cell fills with hash's the same as 31/12/9999 + 1 does -- Stony (talk) 07:22, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

...in some particular program? --NapoliRoma (talk) 22:22, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Oh sorry, MS Excel 2007, was reading something about it before i posted this and just somehow assumed it was about it, must have been a blonde moment. Stony (talk) 05:55, 1 June 2008 (UTC)