Police Say Not To Abbreviate 2020

[Me.]

Stop abbreviating 2020. Police say it leaves you open to fraud and could cost you big

“The new year is giving scammers an easy way to forge documents, but you can protect yourself with an easy New Year's resolution: Stop abbreviating the year.

Why? This year's abbreviation is easily changeable and could be used against you. The concern is that scammers could easily manipulate a document dated "1/1/20" into "1/1/2000" or even "1/1/2021."

Writing out the full date "could possibly protect you and prevent legal issues on paperwork," according to Hamilton County, Ohio, Auditor Dusty Rhodes.

While it's early in the year for examples of this kind of fraud to emerge, the threat is real according to Ira Rheingold, the executive director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/02/do-not-abbreviate-year-2020-in-date/2795857001/

[cos dem]

1. Good habit in general

I got out of the abbreviated year habit before Y2K. Also use 3 letter month trigraphs instead of numerical months. I do international work, and this avoids confusion.
Now if I could just get it so everyone recognized Zulu time...

[Me.]

2. ...

[keithbvadu2]

5. I had a form from the V.A. that had mmddyyyy and ddmmyyyy on the same page for dates.

I had a form from the V.A. that had mmddyyyy and ddmmyyyy on the same page for dates.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. '...Hamilton County, Ohio, Auditor Dusty Rhodes...'

That's a scam artist name if I ever heard one.

Seriously, I have been writing out the full year for a long time now. It avoids ambiguity.

[Me.]

4. Wonder What His Porn Name Would Be