[cousin_it]

> 02020

Funny how this "long now" date format will stop working in 99999, but the normal way of writing years as integers will keep working just fine.

[dingnuts]

it's so half-assed, why just tack a zero onto the Christian year? in the Yoruba calendar it's 10,067 -- use that and it puts things in a real perspective. We're ten thousand years from the beginning of civilization, not two thousand. Now THAT gives some perspective on the "long now"

[kragen]

TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_calendar

Maybe more like twelve thousand years from the beginning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe. The real crucial question is whether we're two years from the end of civilization or two trillion.

[saulpw]

Seriously, they could have stuck a '1' on the front instead of a '0' and it would have been a) more accurate, b) less weird, and c) more perspective.