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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News patch of 7-Sep-1990
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.153619.27112@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep18.222450.25228@zoo.toronto.edu> <15864@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <EMV.90Sep20173241@picasso.math.lsa.umich.edu> <1990Sep23.182243.24772@sq.sq.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 15:36:19 GMT

In article <1990Sep23.182243.24772@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
>> Ohio State way of naming the same files (900801 instead of 01-Aug-90)
>> works much better that way.
>
>No it doesn't, if they only use 2 digits for the year.  It merely
>gets people *used* to lexical sorting giving date order, then blows up.

Nah, we'll switch to hexadecimal when the top digit turns over. :-)
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