From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 15 07:14:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA26744 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:14:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA26739; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:14:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA34452; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:12:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:12:52 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: Greg Lehey , Warner Losh , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpslice tcpslice.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > I've had in my mind that I should write some general purpose code which > chooses the nearest match. So that '55' would currently represent 1955, > but in 2006 it would represent 2055. Urk. That reminds me too much of certain Microsoft products that are too smart for their own good. Whatever the interpretation of a two digit year, it should be simple. It is unfortunate that the trend is toward having a mid-century flip of the implied century. Two digit dates expanding to the *current* century seem much more straight-forward to me. Much easier to remember how the system will interpret it. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message