As the new year has bought new possibilities and cheer for us the year has also come with some interesting issues, while we rejoice with the new year we also be extra careful while writing our dates this year. Try not to use the ‘YY’ this year. This can get horribly wrong as someone might right older dates in documents or a future year over the cheques.
And this is not only about mistakenly writing 2019 instead of 2020, while writing cheques, we are also talking about writing something as 21/1/20.
The DD/MM/YY can be contrived.
When written the dates in the short form and years just as “20” instead of the complete year, this can easily be changed to make it look like “2019” or “2021”
As an example, if you write 20/1/20, then the ’20’ at the end can easily be changed by any fraudster by simply adding another 2 digits for the year, so the date can become 20/01/2021 instead of the original.
In the same way the year 20 can be suffixed to turn them in previous years.
Some cases where this can harm are:
1. Some crooked landlord could forge lease renewal claiming you signed already(and try to force you to break the lease).
2. Someone could find an old cheque and essentially unexpire it by adding a current year and depositing again.
3. An unofficial will can be made post dated and can be made to appear to be the most recent version.
While the problem is only for this year as our century and year both are same, but from next year you should be good to go again with 2 YY formats, but it’s good to keep the good habit of writing full date.
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