"Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> We do need to handle two-digit years, [...]
Is it at all possible to get away with _not_ doing so? It is, after
all, incredibly stupid to use two-digit years in anything but spoken
conversation, so in a way, I'd prefer computer systems to blankly
refuse them. If they're allowed at all, I'd say parse them so that a
year specification of '99' means the actual year 99. _Not_ 1999.
Then again, I also think computer systems should refuse to accept
non-ISO8601 date specifications, so I may be a bit too pedantic. :-)
-tih
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