[dotancohen]

  > The burning question that arises in my mind is why nobody was doing this in 01890, 135 years ago

  > Mason put Masonite into mass production in 01929

Thank you for taking into consideration that for us readers, 1890 was 135 years ago. Just so you know, people from this era haven't started writing 4-digit years with the leading zero yet.

[cpach]

“Just so you know, people from this era haven't started writing 4-digit years with the leading zero yet.”

People have been doing that since at least 01998.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991128020723/http://longnow.or...

[ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7]

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

> established in 1996 ... The Long Now Foundation hopes to "creatively foster responsibility" in the framework of the next 10,000 years. In a manner somewhat similar to the Holocene calendar, the foundation uses 5-digit dates to address the Year 10,000 problem[2] (e.g., by writing the current year "02025" rather than "2025"). The organization's logo is X, a capital X with an overline, a representation of 10,000 in Roman numerals.

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They zero pad, but it doesn't seem like anyone else does so with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar

[MadVikingGod]

I appreciate that people have started to think about this already, but could I propose an alternative system. Borrowed from Warhammer 40k The Long Now was founded in 998.M1. It's a little jarring at first, but that would easily get us to the 999th Mellenium and wouldn't be too hard to reference BCE dates as 005.M-0

[foobarian]

They look to me like zip codes or octal numbers before I think of years. :-)

[Polizeiposaune]

Except:

error: invalid digit "8" in octal constant error: invalid digit "9" in octal constant

But why only one leading zero? You can show you care somewhat more about the future by writing 002025, but then someone comes along and writes 000002025 ...

[dotancohen]

It is extremely disingenuous to present a tiny fringe group that represents not a percent of a percent of the population as something "people do".

[cpach]

I never claimed it is a wide-spread practice.