From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 8 12:34:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15891 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 12:34:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from niobe.ewox.org (ppp032.uio.no [129.240.240.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15884 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 12:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from finrod@niobe.ewox.org) Received: (from finrod@localhost) by niobe.ewox.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26052; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 21:34:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from finrod) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Y2K compliance Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: finrod@niobe.ewox.org (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 08 Jul 1998 21:34:26 +0200 Message-ID: <86yau4b0hp.fsf@niobe.ewox.org> Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I feel like committing the following patch to /usr/src/release/Makefile: Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.359 diff -u -r1.359 Makefile --- Makefile 1998/06/26 18:54:06 1.359 +++ Makefile 1998/07/08 18:54:19 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ #BUILDNAME=2.2-RELEASE # # Automatic SNAP versioning: -DATE != date +%y%m%d +DATE != date +%Y%m%d BASE = 3.0 BUILDNAME?=${BASE}-${DATE}-SNAP # I mentioned this to Jordan once before I got commits, but his reply was "we'll get around to it some day". Niobe is running make release with that patch right now, but I don't think I'll encounter any trouble. The only thing I can think of that it might break is ordering, i.e. if anybody is relying on collating order to sort snapshots, since 1998 is lexically less than 98. Comments? DES -- Sorry, no .sig today. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message