On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/15/2015 06:06 AM, Steven Honeyman wrote:
>>
>> On 15 February 2015 at 07:38, Explorer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is a trivial change to allow a 5-digit-or-more year in 'ls'
>>> timestamp
>>> output.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kang-che Sung <explorer09-at-gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> You realise we're good for almost 8000 more years? :D
>
>
> I guess it can already happen if your clock is grossly miscalibrated,
> though?
>
> Or as a result of corruption in a filesystem, archive, FTP transfer, or
> any number of other things (including user error). I guess it's also
> conceivable that someone might want to apply `accurate' timestamps
> to things like photographs of cave-paintings from the year -5k....
>
> I'd actually be really interested in hearing the motivations for the
> change

The resulting code is _smaller_.
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