> 02019 Why not 002019? 6 digits. That would be valid a lot longer.

kragen · on Aug 17, 2024

i wholeheartedly support your choice to henceforth format your years with six digits

collinmanderson · on Aug 17, 2024

I'm waiting for python support first. Not sure what the eta is or why it's taking so long. Every day we get closer to the eventual deadline.

> Extended date representations are not currently supported (±YYYYYY-MM-DD).

https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.dat...

> MAXYEAR is 9999.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.MAX...

I'm also waiting for longnow.org to start using long dates behind the scenes, like image urls, html metadata, http headers, etc. They need to eat their own dog food as far as software goes.

    <link rel="icon" href="https://static.longnow.org/2022/06/favicon.png" type="image/png">
    <meta property="og:image" content="https://static.longnow.org/2021/10/header-talks.jpg">
    <meta property="article:modified_time" content="2024-06-11T17:21:23.000Z">