Posted Sep 4, 2008 19:33 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Linux 3.0? by stijn
Parent article: Linux 3.0?
well, then why not use 1900 as the epoc (date already does this and returns 108 for this year)
it ends up being confusing.
and you are always free to truncate the version number yourself. think of vehicle model years, you refer to the 2008 model as the oh-eight model and everyone knows what you are referring to, but if you referred to things as the 8 model most people would take a few seconds to figure out what you are talking about.