This meme is analyzed in detail by a lawyer and his friend in the middle of this podcast:<p><a href="https://openargs.com/oa347-pennhurst-and-the-voter-purge-in-georgia/" rel="nofollow">https://openargs.com/oa347-pennhurst-and-the-voter-purge-in-...</a>
(1) stop using checks already<p>and<p>(2) legal documents should always have the full date (spelled out) on them anyway, so if you just use '20' then that would have been wrong anyway, but 11/Dec/20.
I already don't abbreviate the year if I can avoid it. I prefer YYYY-MM-DD format myself; long form (e.g. "January 4, 2020") can also be used. However, some forms specify use of a particular date format (but if they do, then it is clear what the format is from the form; still sometimes the year can be ambiguous if there is only two digits).
Yet more reason to use the objectively correct date format.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Dates" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Dates</a>
Many of us in tech are prone to using mobile apps instead of cash - but we do sign legal documents and this is an area where it would pay to be particularly careful when writing the year.
I saw one of my aunts share this on Facebook and was unsure if it was actual advice or just the normal chain mail spam that gets passed around.<p>Thoughts?
If you’re really committed to abbreviating it, go with 3 characters instead—“020”. Bam! Problem solved. If someone tries to stick digits on the end they’ll get an octal number unexpectedly!
Mandatory link and strong recommendation: <a href="https://xkcd.com/1179/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/1179/</a>