Rob Browning:
> Why in the world wouldn't you want to require 4 digits for the date?
Because of all the usual bad reasons, and one good one: it
doesn't matter. The LSM dates are always past tense, and
making the new requirement is trivial, all of thirty seconds
of coding. Converting all old date
This is really off-topic, but it's one of my pet peeves. Sorry.
Rob Browning:
> 5) Debian should use either the big or little endian format and always
> use four digits for the year. That way we won't have trouble when the
> millenium hits, and you can always tell by looking if it's big or
> litt
On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> [1] Yes, I know it was probably deliberate, but American middle-endian
> date-formats are stupid and confusing and I want them stamped out.
>
You have better things to do than to stamp about for the rest of your
life. Also, you will never get anyone's att
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