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@evan As others have said, it's meaningful if we give it meaning, and I do. Qualified yes.

One meaning is we'd better proactively deal with computers failing to deal with calendar dates correctly, e.g. the Year 2038 problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem. We recently survived the Y2K22 bug, in part due to coders' hard work.

Another meaning is the clock ticking on the climate crisis. We're another year closer to the IPCC's 2030 and 2050 goalposts, and not on track to reach our goals.