Re: Mirrors et al.

To: Craig Sanders <cas@muffin.pronet.com>
Cc: Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org, Mark Constable <markc@ion.com.au>
Subject: Re: Mirrors et al.
From: Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 02:01:10 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 199604290701.CAA02869@raven.ots.utexas.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:48:29 +1000." <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.960429093751.13818Q-100000@muffin.pronet.com>

>>>>> "C" == Craig Sanders <cas@muffin.pronet.com> writes:

C> CD manufactures want version numbers?  Fine, they can have them.
C> YYMMDD of whatever day they cut the CD.  YYMMDD is the only date
C> format that sorts properly...so I use it for everything.

Only problem is, sorting will break in less than 4 years :>

It's going to be interesting to see what happens globally when 00
rolls around.  I wonder if there are many important programs that are
going to take a header...

--
Rob

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