[[One figure is excitedly speaking to two others.]]
Excited Figure: Whoa, it's 2014-03-10! Under our system, that date will *never happen again!!*
My hobby: pointing this out every day.
{{Title text: If our current civilization lasts another 8,000 years, it's probably fair to assume the Long Now Foundation got things right, and at some point we started listening to them and switched to five-digit years.}}
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