From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jan 15 17:01:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11661 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:01:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from k6n1.znh.org ([207.109.235.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11652 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:01:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zach@uffdaonline.net) Received: (from zach@localhost) by k6n1.znh.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id BAA18736; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 01:03:08 GMT (envelope-from zach) Message-ID: <19990115190308.A18409@znh.org> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:03:08 -0600 From: Zach Heilig To: Bill Fumerola , "Daniel O'Callaghan" Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/9500: `edithook' is not Y2K compliant References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Bill Fumerola on Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:40:28PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:40:28PM -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: > I'd like to point on the 'perhaps this is...' in my statment, I wasn't > trying to start a holy war. I'll also point out the people you mentioned > are our most represented users, if not the majority. Either way is fine, > I'm just wondering why you're using an obscure format, and I guess the > answer is "it shows we're not biased towards one format". yyyy/mm/dd is really the most computer friendly format (a simple sort will properly order dates). FreeBSD -SNAPS are named this way. It seems to be the most popular date format when dealing with computers (I notice it just about everywhere). I've also seen a similar format used around town at more than one business (1999 Jan 15, for example). [ It's also a reasonable way to pick a strictly increasing serial number for DNS -- 1999011500 through 1999011599 for 1999 Jan 15. Most of us will be long past caring when we run out of serial numbers in 147 years ]. -- Zach Heilig / Zach Heilig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message