>     There is little point in maintaining backwards compatibility
>     if it can be established that there is no need for it
>     anymore.

My worry is that this change appears to have absolutely no positive
aspects and only negative potential.  We know browsers exist that cannot
handle 4-digit years.  Early WebTV boxes don't, early Netscape don't.  We
do not know of any browsers that cannot handle 2-digit years.  Hence I
fail to see the upside with this change.

Your reasoning is that somebody will at some point write a browser that
can't handle 2-digit years and thus we should risk breaking existing apps
for a small percentage of users.  I think we should worry about this when
such a browser actually surfaces.

-Rasmus


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