gEDA-dev: gEDA/gaf stable version 1.0.1-20070626 released!

[Stephen Williams]

Bob Paddock wrote:
> On Saturday 30 June 2007 09:57, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> 
>>> If we would like to add the date the version number should be 
>>> 1.0.1.20070626
>>>
>> Oohhh, this suggestion has come up several times now and I am starting
>> to like it (no dash). 
> 
> It would be far better to be explicit and spell out the month,
> or at least abbreviate the month as:
> 
>  2007Jun26
> 
> for example.
> 
> I spent a lot of time working with people in other parts of the world
> on a daily basis.  Sometimes they would schedule meetings
> well in advance.  As 7AM 10-06-2007.  Is that June the 10th,
> or October the 6th?  It depends on what part of the world
> your in.  Once we all got onto spelling it, there where
> no more missed meetings.

YYYYMMDD has recently emerged as some sort of a standard for date
stamps because it lexically sorts properly. When writing dates with
slashes, I agree that it is best to include the month for exactly
the reason you cite, but when I started using YYYYMMDD to mark
snapshot releases for Icarus Verilog (and for day job releases
too, for that matter) the fact that it was a date was really
nobody's business. Of course, everybody quickly guessed it was
dates, but the fact that it was (is) a date only matters to the
releaser.

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