From owner-cvs-all Thu Jul 9 15:38:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA07689 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 15:38:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07675; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 15:38:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id AAA17116; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 00:38:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 00:38:22 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: John Polstra Cc: des@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile References: <199807090826.BAA14763@freefall.freebsd.org> <199807091808.LAA07329@austin.polstra.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 10 Jul 1998 00:38:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: John Polstra's message of "Thu, 09 Jul 1998 11:08:15 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk John Polstra writes: > In article <199807090826.BAA14763@freefall.freebsd.org>, > Dag-Erling C. Sm\xf8rgrav wrote: > > Use four-digit year in SNAP name. We're eighteen months from the next > > millenium, fer cryin' out loud... > This change is OK with me, but it seems a bit unnecessary. Who or > what is going to get confused by a SNAP date that begins with 00? > There are Y2K problems, and then there's Y2K nonsense. As I see it, the Y2K problem is not about how computers represent dates, it's about how people think about dates. Seen with that perspective, it *does* matter. DES -- One two, one two, one two. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message