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Date:      Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:12:52 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@hilink.com.au>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpslice tcpslice.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901151006020.32196-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990115175907.2001F-100000@enya.clari.net.au>

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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


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