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Why do you reference a year via 01960 or 01940? ... Surely you don't mean Hexadecimal... You won't live past 20x0 so why the importance?

Y10K compliance.

To me, "compliance" suggests that adherence prevents an issue, but there is no ambiguity in writing a 4-digit year.

I currently have a computer with 16 GiB of RAM. But to be future-compliant, I should write it out as 016 GiB?

I appreciate the explanation, in any case.