= Сообщение: 5338 из 7124 ====================================== FTSC_PUBLIC = От : Rob Swindell 1:103/705 19 Dec 20 17:33:48 Кому : Maurice Kinal 19 Dec 20 17:33:48 Тема : alternative DateTime (ref: fts-0001.016) FGHI : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=30792.ftsc_pub@1:103/705+24445844 На : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=1:153/7001+5fdea033 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: ASCII ================================== Ответ: area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=1:153/7001+5fdeada9 ============================================================================== Re: alternative DateTime (ref: fts-0001.016) By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Sun Dec 20 2020 12:52 am
> Hey Rob! > > RS> Which is to say: it would not work at all, in a backwards > RS> compatible way. > > It is EXACTLY as backwards compatible as it needs to be, both for now as > well as back in 1995 and probably earlier.
I guess you don't know what "backwards compatible" means. Backwards compatible means it would continue to work with existing systems. Your proposal does not continue to work with existing systems.
> Unless you can point to a currently running system, or even one back in > 1968, that required a two > digit year to function in order to achieve proper FTN based digital > communications,
All currently running systems using SBBSecho would reject packets that contain dates in your proposed format since the date format you propposed does not conform to the FTN specs. I suspect most other echomail programs would do the same.
> then I will still maintain that the current proposal stands > and is indeed TRULY backwards compatible. By you limited definition nothing > is backwards compatible including 8-bit systems that require a 2 digit year > for their punch card IO database.
Its not specifically the number of digits in the year that is the problem but rather that the various numeric fields are in a different order and at different offsets within the date/time string field.
> Please feel free to fold, spindle and mutilate THAT.
Is this how you normally engage in technical discussions?
> RS> Continuing what? > > Living and learning.
Sure. I don't see the relevance. --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
