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If you are referring to the extra digit or digits after the year on a date that's in January or February, that is to clarify which year they are referring to, since under the Julian calendar January 1 was not universally accepted as the beginning of the year. Many considered March 1 to be the first day of the year. So if you put both possibilities on a date between January 1 and March 1, everyone knows what year you are referring to.

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