MRZ dates have no century: reading YYMMDD without year-2000 bugs

Originally published at MRZ dates have no century: reading YYMMDD without year-2000 bugs Every date in a passport's machine-readable zone (MRZ) is six digits: two for the year, two for the month, two for the day. There is no century. ICAO's specimen passport says 740812 for a date of birth, and nothing in the zone tells you whether that is 1974 or... Weiterlesen: MRZ dates have no century: reading YYMMDD without year-2000 bugs