I agree completely. dateext should be the default. Look at all the wishlist bugs regarding sorting that would not be filed if dateext was the default.
FWIW it's now the default on RH systems. (If necessary allow %H and %S to be used in dateformat to better support more frequent rotation and push the patch upstream.) Regards, Karl <k...@meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org