JdeBPThe fun part of that is that a necessary pre-cursor would be going back to get ISO 8601:1988 ratified almost a decade earlier than it was in our universe.
The sad part is that, conversely, in our universe ANSI X3.30-1971 and FIPS PUB 4 had standardized YYYYMMDD years before the IBM PC was invented.
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