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by skymt 2355 days ago
2020 was a common pivot year used in the "windowing" workaround to the Y2K bug. 2-digit years < 20 are defined as 20XX, while years >= 20 are defined as 19XX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_windowing

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Thanks for sharing.

Y2K used to be just an interesting story from the past. Never guessed that it would still be biting people 20 years later. Ouch...