Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Year 10,000 problem (2nd nomination)
Unless I missed something, the sources are: (http://www.publicinterestpolling.com/alookback.htm 1) a 1998 public opinion poll about Y2K, with a footnote at the very end about the alleged Year 10,000 problem, but no references or sources to support its existence; (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2550 2) An April Fool's day post about the problem (http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath200.htm 3) An essay that there might be such a thing (with no technical description of an actual issue), so we better look at it; (http://www.templetons.com/brad/y10k.html 4) A fanciful blog posting from the year 9998 (still with no technical description of an actual issue); (http://www.recapinc.com/aprecap_S97_year10000.htm 5) A posting that actually invites responses to a humor page; (http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/1996/11/xt96d11k.asp 6) Another fanciful blog entry, this one purportedly from 9996 (still no technical description of the problem).All modern computer systems store dates as a number of days since January 1, 1900. There may conceivably be an issue in 2079, when that number passes 65,536, the number which can be stored in one 16-bit word of computer memory. The only |verified issue about year 10,000 is that Excel formatting routines can't handle displaying the value. That's it
— User:Fan, 14:29, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:V (Wikipedia:Verifiability)