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.
It could’ve just been how the report was handed to Musk, I guess. I’m not sure it claimed it was the database itself, just that in the database it had that stuff.
True, quick jot it down on a laptop I suppose.
I looked it up for reference, 2gb is the max size of a table in Access before corruption may occur.