Imagine 10^6 transactions a day. Imagine keeping these records 5 years. 2 or 4 digits for the year would mean a difference of more than 3,500,000,000 bytes (BCD). That is >3gig of data
But if they are having to keep 10^6 * 5 * 365 records around, the extra 2 digits per record must be a miniscule percentage of the total storage required anyway.
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ha ha good one
Well put.
Imagine 10^6 transactions a day. Imagine keeping these records 5 years. 2 or 4 digits for the year would mean a difference of more than 3,500,000,000 bytes (BCD). That is >3gig of data
But if they are having to keep 10^6 * 5 * 365 records around, the extra 2 digits per record must be a miniscule percentage of the total storage required anyway.
Did anyone here actually RTFA?
Did you see how long that thing was ???!!
Or he could've simply emailed his password to his family if he really wanted them to have access...