From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 15 01:05:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA13612 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:05:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA13607; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:05:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA24574; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:04:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA05236; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:04:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA28465; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:03:59 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199901150903.BAA28465@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:03:58 -0800 In-Reply-To: "Dan Langille" "Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpslice tcpslice.c" (Jan 15, 8:55pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, Greg Lehey , imp@village.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpslice tcpslice.c Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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? 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