Because COBOL does not have a date type, some implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The most commonly used is May 20, 1875, as this was the date of an international standards-setting conference held in Paris, known as the “Convention du Mètre.”
These systems default to the reference point when a birth date is missing or incomplete, meaning all of those entries in 2025 would show an age of 150.
Wait. Are you telling me that dumbass teenagers that are extremely cocky and steeped in Dunning-Kruger, along with their stupid leader fElon might not have stopped to ask questions about something they have no fucking clue about?
That they didn’t stop and wonder…maybe I should talk to an expert on this, and someone that with a bit more wisdom than someone that thinks computers started with their “generation”? You know, an “old”? Maybe even, a, gasp, a “boomer”?
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