> 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.
Well, let me restate that pure existance of software does not
matter. I still have NT 4.0 with a MSIE 2 in the desk -- it
exists, but you don't design applications for it anymore. It
is the actual use which counts. For further confirmation of
this, you just need to look at major web stores such as
amazon.com. They are not afraid of making the move to
4-digit years.
Let us consider two sets
1: Browsers in use which handle only 2-digit years
2: Browsers in use which handle only 4-digit years properly
While both sets may be empty at this time, a safe and natural
prediction is that the size of the second set will increase.
The first one will not change and remain at 0 for obvious
reasons.
And therefore I've introduced this proactive change.
- Sascha
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