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Emacs solution

Emacs solution

Posted May 25, 2011 15:18 UTC (Wed) by jonescb (guest, #74600)
In reply to: Emacs solution by xxiao
Parent article: 2.8.0?

In the LKML thread someone already mentioned that the version numbers have to fit into 8 bits which 2011 does not. They could use 11 like Ubuntu does, but that's going to be a problem in 2100 (Y2K all over again).

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Emacs solution

Posted May 25, 2011 19:56 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

except for the fact that having version 100 be released in 2100 makes a lot more sense than 100 being the year 2000 did.

making the version be year-2000 will take us to 2255, which is long enough for that field to be expanded to more than 8 bits.

besides, don't you know that everything will be re-done by 2038 anyway when time_t runs out? that's the date to worry about, not 62 years later.


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