From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 19:54:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA18281 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 19:54:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ascetic.portal.ca (ascetic.portal.ca [206.87.139.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA18264 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 19:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjs@portal.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by ascetic.portal.ca (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA11595; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 19:53:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: ascetic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 19:53:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Sampson To: Chuck Robey cc: Jim Bryant , Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal to not change time_t In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > Some banks. They don't understand that computer that's in the basement, > but it worked in grand-dad's time, and it's still cranking! They won't > even dare look at it until it breaks. And they're probably quite right, too. In my experience, the quickest way to make a working program fail is to let some programmers at it. cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite mist, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message