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iamthepieman on Dec 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mocking Bird – Realtime Voice Clone for Chinese

I'm trying to figure out why you write dates with a leading zero. I can't think of any practical reason. Am I missing something or is it purely a stylistic choice?

blacksmith_tb on Dec 28, 2021 | [–]

I associate it with the Long Now Foundation[1], I think it's used more broadly as a nudge to think long(er) term.

1: https://longnow.org/

hactually on Dec 28, 2021 | [–]

Maybe it's octal?

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