Time zone file naming scheme
Andy Lipscomb
AndyLipscomb at decosimo.com
Tue Apr 27 18:11:40 UTC 2010
>I'm guessing there's a reason a more "traditional" [ a, ..., z, aa, ab, ... az, ba, ... ] sort of
>sequence is unsuitable?
Because 2010aa would come before 2010z in alphabetical order.
>Perhaps if we're going to change the convention, we ought to solve the issue by switching to numeric
>release identifiers: 2010-01, -02, ...
That has the flaw of conflicting with the ISO scheme for naming months. If we want to go that way, we should probably just go all the way and append a full date to each release.
--Ice Karma
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