[ClashTheBunny]

It sorts lexigraphically if it is zero padded.

[jwandborg]

Only as long as you zero-pad the year according to the maximum year in your list.

I'll dub this "the year 10000" problem.

[pgeorgi]

> I'll dub this "the year 10000" problem.

http://longnow.org/about/ "The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years."

[cpeterso]

Long Now's use of five-digit years is also supposed to jolt readers and remind them to think in the bigger picture.

[continuational]

By the year 10000, hopefully terrestial time is long obsolete, and replaced with whatever makes sense for a multi-planet species.

[skriticos2]

Based upon human stubbornness, every planet will have it's own time and date system that will be divided based on historically obscure details before/during and after colonization. Stuff like Thursday is essentially "Thor's day" and in German it literally says "day of the thunder" (Donnerstag).

ps.: Thursday is also Jupiter's day, so it will probably prevail on any colony / permanent human station orbiting it/it's moons.

pps.: I hope they get over the stupid imperial vs. metric divide though.. that one is really annoying.

[johnlbevan2]

Interplanetary daylight savings could be a lot of fun too.

[pjmlp]

Assuming that is anyone left that cares about it.