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From: rml@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re: csh -> Bourne conversion
Message-ID: <5740037@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Jan 89 22:13:15 GMT
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Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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>	$ date=`date +%d-%h-19%y`
>
> 	Actually, this brings up a point that programmers everywhere should
> start thinking about:  all of those hardcoded "19"'s in programs are going to
> be useless in the year 2000.  Think of all the shell scripts/programs
> like the command above...perhaps using a variable or adding a format
> to the date command (I notice that 'Y' isn't being used...a quick patch
> to date would make it so that 'Y' would give you all four digits) would be
> better, such as "date +%d-%h-$CENTURY%y" or "date +%d-%h-%Y".

The current draft of the IEEE 1003.2 standard specifies %Y as giving
the year with century.

		Bob Lenk
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