On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:26:40AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Jim Penny wrote: > > > While mayan does have a certain appeal, why not combine the roman > > numeral idea and the year of release idea. The defect with year of > > release was that it did not allow muliple releases per year. > > > > We already have a program in the Debian archives that will solve both of > > these problems, and can be easily automated: hodie. > > > > Using hodie -c -v, we could name the current release (if released today): > > Debian quarto Idus Ianuarias MMDCCLVI ab urbe condita > "Fourth ide of January 2756"? (I'm not sure what "ab urbe condita" > means.) How does that translate to 10 January 2003? Is it based on some > pre-Christian calendar? (The Romans, IIRC, always dated things relative > to the current Caesar's year of ascension, so presumably that's not what > you're doing. And I forget exactly what an "ide" is.) The fourth day before the Ides of January, in the 2756th year from the founding of the city. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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