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Large version numbers

Large version numbers

Posted Nov 9, 2011 3:38 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)
In reply to: Large version numbers by stevenj
Parent article: Firefox 8 released

> Why write dates as year-month-day? Why not simply count days from some arbitrary starting point?

Firefox version 2455874.44

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day

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