Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:03:08 -0600 From: Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>, "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@hilink.com.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/9500: `edithook' is not Y2K compliant Message-ID: <19990115190308.A18409@znh.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990115173619.18735A-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>; from Bill Fumerola on Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:40:28PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990116091834.17266B-100000@enya.clari.net.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990115173619.18735A-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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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@uffdaonline.net> / Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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