I guess I am a kid since I decided not to start SS yet. And I am still a kid at heart.
Yes, I know you were talking abut 1961. And I asked how you knew it was always that way. And you didn't answer my question, which is your right.
I mentioned 2009 just because I am curious as to why they would take a system that has always been that way and have some people start doing it the American way, as Agamemnon says he has seen.
The "when did they start/stop" in the context of the UK is not really the question. We see today that different agencies of the US government also favor a certain convention. Why this is is a mystery for another poster to propose a rationale. The fact remains though that this is current practice.
I don't have any view of the inherent validity of the document itself, but the dating convention used is not an obvious and definitive fraud flag to me.
The hell with the date thing.
Why hasn’t the paper stock been analyzed for origin and age?
Why hasn’t the font and other characteristics of the typeface been analyzed?
What kind of typewriter was used and what year was it first manufactured? Was the model available in that country at that time?
These things are not that hard to ascertain.