RE: Mirrors et al.
On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, SnaX wrote:
> > 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...
>
>
> Why don't they use the format YYYYMMDD ?
>
> If this is such a big concern for version number and it last's until year
> 9999.
Yeah, but what then? You haven't thought about that, have you?
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