From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 31 20:55:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA23464 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA23451 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA02772; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:24:48 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708010354.NAA02772@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: date(1) In-Reply-To: <199708010352.NAA08506@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Aug 1, 97 01:22:00 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:24:48 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, brian@awfulhak.org, grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey stands accused of saying: > >> > >> Arrrghhhhhh ! Your mailer is gobbling the "open square brace" > >> characters ! That is *NOT* what I posted. There are two opening > >> brackets prior to the ``cc'' that something's eating. > > > > Greg is almost certainly using supercite inside emacs. Bad boy! > > No. Real Hackers write their own Emacs macros. And they don't always > work right. "almost" 8) You should be using it, then 8) > >> I'm sure we can all agree that this means the above usage (with the > >> two wandering brackets included) is correct ? > > > > Yes. > > Oh. > > Think-again-ing you what Me, or you? All he's proposing is to extend the current syntax so that if there are two more digits than expected, they're interpreted as the century. Sounds eminently sensible to me... If you want to go completely nuts, I'm sure you can find a date-parsing library out there that will let you say things like 'date three weeks ago' > Grog -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[