Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: C News patch of 7-Sep-1990 Message-ID: <1990Sep24.153619.27112@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Sep18.222450.25228@zoo.toronto.edu> <15864@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Sep23.182243.24772@sq.sq.com> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 15:36:19 GMT In article <1990Sep23.182243.24772@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes: >> Ohio State way of naming the same files (900801 instead of 01-Aug-90) >> works much better that way. > >No it doesn't, if they only use 2 digits for the year. It merely >gets people *used* to lexical sorting giving date order, then blows up. Nah, we'll switch to hexadecimal when the top digit turns over. :-) -- TCP/IP: handling tomorrow's loads today| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology OSI: handling yesterday's loads someday| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry