Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:03:58 -0800 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, imp@village.org Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpslice tcpslice.c Message-ID: <199901150903.BAA28465@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> "Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpslice tcpslice.c" (Jan 15, 8:55pm)
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On Jan 15, 8:55pm, "Dan Langille" wrote: } Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpslice tcpslice.c } On 15 Jan 99, at 17:52, Greg Lehey wrote: } } > I think that, all else being equal, the fact that other UNIX systems } > are going this way should be a reason for us to do it too. } } That makes sense to me. } } But do we want to be like everybody else? <grin> It's a good idea to be interopable. It would be bad if one implementation generated a two digit date for one year that was interpreted as a different century by another implemenation. It would also be bad for two different implementations to generate different output when fed the same two digit year as input. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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