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[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (25 children)

ISO 8601 is YYYYMMDD (or YYYY-MM-DD in extended format)

Are you really going to wood chipper someone for leaving off the leading 20? I think we can safely infer the century and millennium with a high confidence, why not trade them for two extra name characters?

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 23 points 1 day ago (17 children)

As an old person who has archives dating back to the 90s, yes.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Here you go gramps:

(shortD) => {
    return parseInt(shortD.slice(0, 2), 10) > 50 ? "19" + shortD : "20"+shortD;
}
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