I'm not a programmer, but ...

I don't know whether anybody still visits that page. I found it, after all, by clicking on a six year old link, and then clicking up one level. At first it seems like something is very wrong. Certainly being off by a couple of milenia doesn't make sense.

Of course things are often simpler than they seem, and that seems to be the case here as well. I don't understand much of the inner workings of this, but the source for the page has what looks like rather simple javascript, one line of which reads:

var year = 1900 + now.getYear()

Again, I don't know why this happens, but my guess is that "now.getYear" was supposed to retrieve (from somewhere) the last two digits of the present year. This would have worked until 1999. When the year 2000 rolled around, however, this got read incorrectly, and all four digits were read, such that: 1900 + 2005 = 3905. Does it matter? Of course not, but it's interesting.

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