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This also applies to [[Time Travel]], either forward or backward; from 1972, you can jump forward to 2072 or back to 1872.
 
There are two big exceptions to this. One is when they just use a nice round number by itself for the year; thus, all the TV shows and movies set in the year 2000 (or 1999, or 2001). The other is sequels to something that was set in Exty Years; for example, ''[[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' came out from 1966 to 1969 and was mostly set from 2266 to 2269, but ''[[Star Trek: theThe Motion Picture (Film)|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' came out in 1979 and was set in 2272, because it needed to be only a few years after the end of the series. Likewise for ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' and its spin-offs, which took place almost a century after the beginning of the original series (2364 in TNG's Season 1) and continued in real-time thereafter, but originally premiered in 1987. Thus, when the titular ship of ''[[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'' ended its, well, voyage in the late 2370s, its last episode aired in 2001.
 
It should also be noted that characters, like real people, often round numbers off. Just because someone says something happened "1000 years ago," that doesn't mean it couldn't have happened 992 or 1038 years ago.
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The [[Human Popsicle]], [[Sealed Evil in A Can]], and [[Sealed Good in A Can]] have often been that way for Exty Years too.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Nineteen Eighty -Four]]'' is a sort-of [[Averted Trope|aversion]]; it's not a round number of years, but Orwell flipped the year he was writing in to get a "distant but chillingly near future" effect.
** He wanted to title it ''Nineteen Forty Eight''.
** The movie version was not only shot in the real 1984, but every scene referencing a date was shot on the right date.
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