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Document that years in ISO 8601 dates are taken literally.

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"69-09-10" is in the year 69, not 2069.
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.\" $NetBSD: parsedate.3,v 1.12 2013/01/19 15:28:25 apb Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: parsedate.3,v 1.13 2014/10/07 22:39:32 apb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2006 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd January 19, 2013
.Dd October 7, 2014
.Dt PARSEDATE 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Pp
A variety of unambiguous dates are recognized:
.Bl -tag -compact -width "20 Jun 1994"
.It 69-09-10
.It 9/10/69
For years between 69-99 we assume 1900+ and for years between 0-68
we assume 2000+.
.It 2006-11-17
An ISO-8601 date.
.It 69-09-10
The year in an ISO-8601 date is always taken literally,
so this is the year 69, not 2069.
.It 10/1/2000
October 10, 2000; the common US format.
.It 20 Jun 1994
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.It 1-sep-06
Other common abbreviations.
.It 1/11
the year can be omitted
The year can be omitted.
This is the US month/day format.
.El
.Pp
As well as times: