[rom1v]

Are the years intended to be read in octal?

[kijin]

According to javascript, 01971 is just 1971. Meanwhile, 01671 is 953.

[kragen]

Man! JS never stops trolling you.

[nappy-doo]

It's one of these Long Now things. The goal is to get people to think in long term time frames.

[drfuchs]

That’s a ZipCode.

[walkabout]

They’re intended to derail every thread that includes them into discussions about this stupid date format, thus wasting lifetimes of person-hours.

It’s surely an effort by misanthropes who want the worst for humanity. If it’s coming from any benign motivation, then it’s totally misguided.

[dinkelberg]

I'm sorry, but this reads somewhat misanthropical itself. Let people have some fun?

[walkabout]

They’re trolls. They’ve been doing this for years. It’s just trolling.