From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 10 16:54:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA24590 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:54:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA24585 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:54:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA07580; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 19:55:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA07135; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 19:55:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 19:55:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca Reply-To: hoek@hwcn.org To: Brian Somers cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: date(1) In-Reply-To: <199708102049.VAA21847@awfulhak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > > Of course, in the interest of script-portability, we should not > > extend date(1) at all. Anyone trying to enter the century should > > get an error. This is the whole purpose of Posix, to increase > > portability. By creating extensions to it, we defeat the whole > > purpose just for the sake of creating a better operating system. > > Well, I've done the other changes (they only take effect if you use > the new flags). Is the general concensus that we should leave out > the century ? It's no loss if we leave it out as allowable dates Well, my comment was really more a (fairly realistic) parady of the "logic" that had just been used to shoot down a valid extension to sleep(1) (had the submitter phrased himself differently, I doubt anyone would have reacted as they did). There really is no value in _not_ adding the century (other than saving a little coding time, and the [assorted negative adjectives deleted] argument about "portability), even if there is no immediate value in adding it either. Actually, I thought the concensus went the other way. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk