[Info-vax] Significance of 2020 / 2021 date

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On Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 11:52:35 AM UTC-7, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-01-07 18:40:56 +0000, Hein RMS van den Heuvel said: 
> 
> > On Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 12:33:57 PM UTC-5, Andy Burns wrote: 
> >> issinoho wrote: 
> >> 
> >>> We have some old 90s VAX C code which rejects any dates after the year 2020 
> >> Does this use 2 digit years or 4 digit? 
> >> 
> >> Some systems use "date windowing" and assume e.g. yy below 20 means 
> >> 19yy otherwise it means 20yy. 
> > 
> > Ah yes, I've seen those - OpenVMS has it! 
> > 
> > nitpicking - year XX below 20 would 20xx, and above it would be 19xx
> The OpenVMS pivot year is 57. 
> 
> Which also happens to be the year DEC was founded.
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am I the only one that saw 2020 as two spaces in hex? (I've been at this too long)