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India's corporate registry plagued by Y2K date bug

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India's Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) continues to grapple with a Y2K-era date bug in its bulk data feeds, where two-digit incorporation years are sometimes misinterpreted as 1900. This issue can lead to significant inaccuracies when reconstructing company ownership timelines across multiple jurisdictions. While some MCA data is structured and accessible, historical filings often contain formatting inconsistencies and OCR errors, complicating automated data parsing and entity tracing. AI

IMPACT Data parsing tools and services may face challenges integrating with or accurately processing data from India's Ministry of Corporate Affairs due to legacy formatting issues.

RANK_REASON The item discusses a technical issue with a government data registry and its implications for data parsing tools.

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · OpenRegistry ·

    India's MCA feed still carries the Y2K date bug

    <p>Two-digit incorporation years still turn up in parts of the MCA bulk feeds. Last month I hit a CIN record where an upstream parser treated <code>01-01-00</code> as 1900 during a sanctions-linked subsidiary trace. Small bug. Big consequences. One bad date can push a company ear…

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