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by mgdlbp 951 days ago
Reminds me of sdate for the Eternal September epoch. 10000 Sep 1993 was 2021-01-16.

http://www.df7cb.de/projects/sdate/

one commit message for the QDBs:

    From 14df411817feda9decf9dd8a6cd555d71f199730 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
    From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
    Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 20:05:49 +0200
    Subject: [PATCH] Fix long --covid option
    
    
     scripts/sdate.in | 2 +-
     1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Sep 17 2001 (1000684800) is a special date from git-format-patch. Its significance is lost to time.