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_. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
