From owner-cvs-all Fri Jul 10 06:17:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA07830 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 06:17:34 -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 GAA07822; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 06:17:27 -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 NAA15707; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:10:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:10:04 +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: <199807092302.QAA12959@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 13:10:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: John Polstra's message of "Thu, 09 Jul 1998 16:02:31 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk John Polstra writes: > > As I see it, the Y2K problem is not about how computers represent > > dates, it's about how people think about dates. > > That seems backwards to me. People never get confused about 2-digit > years. There's not a FreeBSD user alive who would think that a SNAP > year of "00" meant anything except 2000. (Actually, I encountered That's not what I meant. If people continue to think of years in two-digit terms, people will continue to write programs which use two digits to store years. There isn't and has never been any sound technical reason to use two digits instead of four. If you're concerned about conserving space in a database, there are other and better ways to do it than to encode years in ASCII. You can cram four BCD digits in the same space, or sixteen binary digits. 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