Fwd: [PATCH] ls: no longer assume a 4-digit year on file timestamp.
Rich Felker
dalias at libc.org
Tue Feb 17 21:37:48 UTC 2015
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Laurent Bercot wrote:
> On 17/02/2015 13:52, Explorer wrote:
> >My original motivation was to avoid that annoying comment saying that
> >"it's buggy after year 9999", and I believe it should be written right
> >in the first place.
>
> Would you prefer the following comment: "It's buggy after year 99999" ?
>
> (Not saying that the patch is a bad idea, but if you want to write
> it "right", then it's a bit more complex. And totally not worth it.)
Read the new code again. It works fine for that case as far as I can
tell.
Rich
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