[PATCH] ls: no longer assume a 4-digit year on file timestamp.

Joshua Judson Rosen jrosen at harvestai.com
Tue Feb 17 04:16:02 UTC 2015


On 02/15/2015 06:06 AM, Steven Honeyman wrote:
> On 15 February 2015 at 07:38, Explorer <explorer09 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is a trivial change to allow a 5-digit-or-more year in 'ls' timestamp
>> output.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kang-che Sung <explorer09-at-gmail.com>
>
> You realise we're good for almost 8000 more years? :D

I guess it can already happen if your clock is grossly miscalibrated, though?

Or as a result of corruption in a filesystem, archive, FTP transfer, or
any number of other things (including user error). I guess it's also
conceivable that someone might want to apply `accurate' timestamps
to things like photographs of cave-paintings from the year -5k....

I'd actually be really interested in hearing the motivations for the change--
especially if there's a story about an actual encounter with
the Y10k problem (or the Y-1k problem).


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