[mandmandam]

It's a Long Now Foundation concept [0]. The idea is to encourage people to think on a more civilizational time scale, and avoid another 'millenium bug' problem in ~7095 years.

0 - https://longnow.org/about/

[AStonesThrow]

I am relieved that when archaeologists download HN archives 7095 years from now, they won't be confused about which "1965" we were discussing!

https://xkcd.com/1683/

[dredmorbius]

A somewhat frequently raised question:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>

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[saagarjha]

Ok, and what happens in 97975 years? I guess the Long Now people didn't think that far ahead, did they?

[kragen]

You mean in the year 099999?

[saagarjha]

Ok so the goal is to just have a leading zero at all times?

[mandmandam]

0I 0don't 0see 0why 0not.

Really though, it's a nice way to provoke some thought, and maybe even start to balance our rather extreme bias towards the very immediate future.

[swores]

Ah, thanks for the explanation.