Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi!osc.edu!karl.kleinpaste
From: karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: decimals in the serial field
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.192946.15264@oar.net>
Date: 17 Jun 91 20:27:19 GMT
References: <JBRYANS.91Jun17110704@beach.csulb.edu>
Sender: news@oar.net
Organization: Viento Gigabit Testbed, Ohio Supercomputer Center
Lines: 12
Nntp-Posting-Host: ashley.osc.edu

jbryans@beach.csulb.edu writes:
   > I find numbers like 91061203 much more readable.  That denotes my
   > third try last Wednesday.  It even sorts, if that's of any value to
   > you.

   What happens in nine years?

You bump way forward in the sequence to, e.g., 2000061203.  With
2-digit sub-day identifiers as Bob uses, you can still last until the
year 4294 before a 32-bit unsigned integer overflows.

--karl