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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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