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The ISO time standard will certainly need to be redone
Do you think so? Surely, it's able to handle dates before the year 999 correctly, so I'd also expect it to handle years beyond 10000. The
\d{4}
is just our bodged assumption, because well, I have actually never seen a log line with a year that wasn't 4 digits...Kinda?
Oh wow, I really expected the standard to just say that however many digits you need are fine, because you know, maths. But I guess, this simplifies handling all kinds of edge cases in the roughly 7975 years we've still got.