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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 1997 20:35:20 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        dk+@ua.net
Cc:        brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: date(1) 
Message-ID:  <199707291935.UAA20712@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:52:00 PDT." <199707290852.BAA13807@dog.farm.org> 

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> In article <199707290356.EAA22036@awfulhak.org> you wrote:
> > > > Yep.  I think I'll fix the usage message too - shouldn't it be:
> > > > 
> > > >   [[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]]
> 
> 	It should become
> 
> 	[[[cc]yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]]
> 
> 	or we are screwed in 866 days from now.

More like:

  [[cc[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]]mm[.ss]]

(you can't have the century without the year).

I'll look into allowing this too.

On that note, I'd expect a year of 00+n to mean 2000+n up to whatever 
the maximum is.  Any objections ?

> --
> 	I have BSD, but SYSV has me.
> 		-- heared from Igor Uwkin (uwka@big.Sun.nsk.SU)

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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