We'll use "2000" just as we now use 1999, etc.  It's never been
worthwhile to try to save two digits-worth of space on objects by
using only a partial year date.  And though it may have been
worthwhile early on to enter only two digits in computer databases,
that time has long since passed.  We've inherited the two-digit
format on objects catalogued in the past, but the database entries
have long since been corrected (and can be tied to the objects even
though the object numbers are abbreviated--luckily, we have no
identical objects with some catalogued in the 19th century and
others in the 20th).

Jan McCormick wrote:
>
> Greetings:
>
>         I was wondering if anyone has figured out what to use for the year
> 2000 when entering accession numbers on a database? Please feel free to
> send any and all ideas. Your help is much appreciated. I will thank you in
> advance... Thank You!
>
> Jan McCormick
> Curator

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