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by foobarian 397 days ago
They look to me like zip codes or octal numbers before I think of years. :-)
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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 ...