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Because COBOL does not have a date type, some implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The most commonly used is May 20, 1875, as this was the date of an international standards-setting conference held in Paris, known as the “Convention du Mètre.”
These systems default to the reference point when a birth date is missing or incomplete, meaning all of those entries in 2025 would show an age of 150.
The people with microblogs basically are the experts, we’ve been paying people who can use this language inordinate amounts for about a decade or so in a desperate attempt to swap systems before all the people who know in practice what they’re doing are all dead.