Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 20:35:20 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: dk+@ua.net Cc: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: date(1) Message-ID: <199707291935.UAA20712@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:52:00 PDT." <199707290852.BAA13807@dog.farm.org>
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> In article <199707290356.EAA22036@awfulhak.org> you wrote:
> > > > Yep. I think I'll fix the usage message too - shouldn't it be:
> > > >
> > > > [[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]]
>
> It should become
>
> [[[cc]yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]]
>
> or we are screwed in 866 days from now.
More like:
[[cc[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]]mm[.ss]]
(you can't have the century without the year).
I'll look into allowing this too.
On that note, I'd expect a year of 00+n to mean 2000+n up to whatever
the maximum is. Any objections ?
> --
> I have BSD, but SYSV has me.
> -- heared from Igor Uwkin (uwka@big.Sun.nsk.SU)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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