[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.