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by Fwirt 322 days ago
Except this could get confusing because the year 1976 (for example) is actually in the 20th century.
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That is a good point. The "ordinal" century doesn't exactly line up with the digits in a "YYYY" format, thus "CCYY" creates some ambiguity depending on how one defines "century".

I conclude my fanciness of using "CCYY" is not useful. :)