My first year-end retirement account statement -- for 1971! -- listed my 
projected retirement date as the incredibly distant, unimaginable, 
science-fiction-like date of February 1, 2012. So back then at least TIAA-CREF 
understood time windows spanning entire careers and beyond.

Quoting:

I was somewhat surprised that it took so long for Y2K to rise to the top, with 
30-year mortgages and such forward-looking things being far from uncommon. But 
I guess those systems all got fixed one at a time as their windows passed 2000, 
without enough awareness that anyone said "Hey, we need to fix this globally, 
now that storage (both memory and DASD) is cheap!"

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