Re: Year 2000

["Sandy, Corinne" <CHS8 -at- CPSOD1 -dot- EM -dot- CDC -dot- GOV>]

In reply to:

I just had to edit a technical paper and saw a date expressed
as 08/17/00; implying the year 2000.

My, you are getting ahead of yourself.  My first reaction was to say, why
are you worrying something that is five+ years' away; but maybe you're not
worrying.  Perhaps you're just curious.  Then I began to get curious. How
will this be addressed?  And who will be the one to make the decision?  I
guess if we want to find out we can research to find out when the format
00/00/00 first came into use, then see if it was done in 1900.  Seems like a
lot of work, and the information may not even be available.  Sorry, I do not
have an answer.  But what an interesting question.
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I just had to edit a technical paper and saw a date expressed
as 08/17/00; implying the year 2000.

Question is, is this going to be the commonly used form of
expressing the year?

It may be an old question to the board, but I am new here
and would appreciate any responses.
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