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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types" Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 05:10:05 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <87y0wjaysg.fsf@gmail.com> <87plhd0z76.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <87cydb28gu.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> Injection-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:10:06 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="de88da8ee25d9a403e44cdb500497ffb"; logging-data="1129337"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18xuJL9gYFAaRr0zHPS7dTfnnHRbbklMCWtsDSEu2LQeA==" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:crk9vwZpIhUr04yiJHfvHyJ5+CI= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 00:10 this Tuesday (GMT): > [ Just noticed this post while catching up in my backlog, so I'm not > sure my questions/comments have already been addressed elsewhere. ] > > On 16.04.2025 22:04, Scott Lurndal wrote: >>> [...] >> >> Back in the mainframe days, it was common to use julian dates >> as they were both concise (5 BCD digits/20 bits) and sortable. >> >> YYDDD >> >> If time was neeeded, it was seconds since midnight in a reference >> timezone. > > I don't quite understand the rationale behind all that said above. > > "YYDDD" was used without century information? How is that useful? > (I assume it's just the popular laziness that later lead to all the > Y2k chaos activities.) [snip] I believe the current rule for software is to consider "39" the cutoff, ie 39 is considered 2039, and 40 is considered 1940. I agree though, removing the century is a bad idea for anything that is supposed to be kept for a length of time. -- user is generated from /dev/urandom