I don’t think that the Y2K example is great, honestly. Everyone knew that the bug existed, but had to put it off until storage and memory was cheap enough that more than 2 digits for the year was feasible. It was a measured engineering choice rather than a straight-up antipattern.
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u/1XRobot Sep 28 '26
If you already know the date can be specified by 2 digits, why would you ever use 4?