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Old January 6th 16, 03:48 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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On 06/01/2016 15:01, wrote:
In article , (Someone
Somewhere) wrote:

On 05/01/2016 19:34, wrote:
In article , d ()
wrote:


The time when dates had to be so compressed passed before the advent of
smartcards, believe me.

Not true - when you are dealing with billions of transactions and/or
millions of smart cards whose cost is proportionate to the storage on
them there is still pressure to minimise the space that data occupies

Not to that extent. They learnt something from Y2K.

As it's panto season "oh no they didn't"
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