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\\\"So, typically all dates were stored internally as 6 digits (and punctuation was added at display time), so November 27, 1960 was coded as 112760. Now, a month later you can get by adding 1 to the first two digits. The new date is later than the original one. Now, however, say you have a date of November 15, 1992 (111592) and you add eight years to it, you get 111500,\\\"

I don\\\'t know how these things were programmed, but if 111592 was stored as a single integer and you added +8, wouldn\\\'t you get 111\\\'\\\'\\\'6\\\'\\\'\\\'00?
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