On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, SnaX wrote:

> > C> CD manufactures want version numbers?  Fine, they can have them.
> > C> YYMMDD of whatever day they cut the CD.  YYMMDD is the only date
> > C> format that sorts properly...so I use it for everything.
> > 
> > Only problem is, sorting will break in less than 4 years :>
> > 
> > It's going to be interesting to see what happens globally when 00
> > rolls around.  I wonder if there are many important programs that are
> > going to take a header...
> 
> 
> Why don't they use the format YYYYMMDD ? 
> 
> If this is such a big concern for version number and it last's until year
> 9999.

Yeah, but what then?  You haven't thought about that, have you?
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