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[The Matrix] what happens on new year in the Matrix? Does everyone think it becomes 1999 every year?

I don’t know if this is expanded on outside the three films but how does one form memories when the matrix is constructed to be at the peak of human civilization? Are memories completely altered every year and if you get older do you start to remember longer and longer ago?

There must be some memory erasure to help kids come to terms with the time mummy and daddy became Hugo Weaving. Unless there’s a programme for group therapy on it.

Maybe errors in memory erasure is what helps people work out that the Matrix isn’t real?
gpt
Time continues as normal. Eventually there's a point where technology and cultural development will become too extreme for the machines to control. Prior to this point they reset the matrix and alter everyone's memories and everything to put it back to a beginning date. The machines pretty easily manipulate time in some of the extended universe material. Places like the UK can be sometimes years behind other parts with the machines altering and changing everything in real time to keep up the illusion. So they could make every day repeat endlessly or run it in a loop of decades and because memories are so easily altered it's impossible to tell the difference.