Date: 10 Jul 1998 00:38:21 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: des@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Message-ID: <xzp3ecay7j6.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: John Polstra's message of "Thu, 09 Jul 1998 11:08:15 -0700" References: <199807090826.BAA14763@freefall.freebsd.org> <199807091808.LAA07329@austin.polstra.com>
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John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> writes: > In article <199807090826.BAA14763@freefall.freebsd.org>, > Dag-Erling C. Sm\xf8rgrav <des@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > Use four-digit year in SNAP name. We're eighteen months from the next > > millenium, fer cryin' out loud... > This change is OK with me, but it seems a bit unnecessary. Who or > what is going to get confused by a SNAP date that begins with 00? > There are Y2K problems, and then there's Y2K nonsense. As I see it, the Y2K problem is not about how computers represent dates, it's about how people think about dates. Seen with that perspective, it *does* matter. DES -- One two, one two, one two. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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