{"id":855,"date":"2020-01-13T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mastermanlaw.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2020-01-13T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T14:43:10","slug":"the-internet-says-you-shouldnt-abbreviate-2020-is-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastermanlaw.com\/the-internet-says-you-shouldnt-abbreviate-2020-is-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Says You Shouldn&#8217;t Abbreviate 2020.  Is it Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the calendar page turned to 2020, excited posts on social media and in internet stories urgently warned us of the risks of writing dates in this year in a way that could lead to fraud and forgery. The premise is that a document dated, for example, &#8220;1\/1\/20&#8221; instead of &#8220;1\/1\/2020&#8221; leaves room for mischief. A wrongdoer could add two additional digits after the &#8220;20&#8221; and make a contract, check, or other instrument appear to be much fresher than it actually is, or signed later than it was.<\/p>\n<p>Now, sure, this could happen. For example, a thief might alter a check that was already presented, issued in 2020, and make it appear that it was signed in 2021. Or a contract signed in 2020 and breached could be altered to avoid an expired statute of limitations. And perhaps simple precautions fall into the &#8220;better safe than sorry&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p>But any such activity is a crime, and that fact by itself narrows the number of potential perpetrators. Further, this is truly an &#8220;old fashioned&#8221; crime. Technology not only makes classic forgery and alteration of documents more detectable, but it is also less necessary. Digital manipulation of documents is a greater risk.<\/p>\n<p>So while it&#8217;s not a bad idea to take the extra second to write out the full &#8220;2020,&#8221; truly fretting and losing sleep over this possibility is unnecessary&#8230; unless, of course, you&#8217;re losing sleep over every document you&#8217;ve every signed. And we hope that&#8217;s not the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the calendar page turned to 2020, excited posts on social media and in internet stories urgently warned us of the risks of writing dates in this year in a way that could lead to fraud and forgery. The premise is that a document dated, for example, &#8220;1\/1\/20&#8221; instead of &#8220;1\/1\/2020&#8221; leaves room for mischief. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastermanlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastermanlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastermanlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastermanlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastermanlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mastermanlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastermanlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastermanlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastermanlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}