[vorbis] International Standard Recording Code

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:29:48PM -0500, Keith Wright wrote:
[snip]
> The Y2K problem was so overhyped that my _plumber_ laughs at
> programmers for being so stupid as to put the date in two bytes.
> It's not like two bytes are valuable anymore, it takes
> a couple MB to store a sound long enough to be worth numbering.
> This scheme was born obsolete.  I don't know what is the earliest
[snip]

not to mention that two-bytes could just as well represent 30768 BCE to
34768 CE, or at least 1352 CE to 2648 CE using easily printable base 36.

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