From owner-cvs-all Sat Jan 16 10:27:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07502 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 10:27:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from schuimpje.snt.utwente.nl (schuimpje.snt.utwente.nl [130.89.238.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07495; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 10:27:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gelderen@mediaport.org) Received: from wit395301.student.utwente.nl ([130.89.235.121]:37893 "HELO deskfix" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]") by schuimpje.snt.utwente.nl with SMTP id <8018-23382>; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 19:26:52 +0100 Message-ID: <034101be417d$acdc78c0$1400000a@deskfix.local> From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" To: "Warner Losh" , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpslice tcpslice.c Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 19:26:03 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk From: Warner Losh > Make two digit years specified on the command line represent > the century that the computer currently resides. So 99 means > 1999 this year, but 2099 next year. That is not a good fix. You are assuming that people will throw the switch when they enter the new millenium. If you talk about '99 in the year 2000, people will assume that you are talking about 1999. Likewise, people are more likely to enter a date one or two years in the past than 99 years in the future... I also think that it violates rule 2 as posted by Dan: Rule 2 Date-based functionality must behave consistently for dates prior to, during and after year 2000. I think this is an extra reason for 'windowing'. Cheers, Jeroen -- Jeroen C. van Gelderen -- gelderen@mediaport.org -- &[8-D}~<= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message