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In article , David Kinsell
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hannu wrote:
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Or, could be 1995. Or 2015. With all the stink about Y2K,
it's a little surprising they came up with a scheme that has
a 10 year rollover problem.


NOW it would be very easy decode the year by base 36 number to push the
problem until 2035...

That's the weird thing. They used digits and characters for the date,
they used digits and characters for the month, and just used digits
for the year.



Only they decided on format in the last millenium.


Yep. I guess some people just can't think ahead :-)

As I recall, IGC adopted a file naming system which was used on the
early Cambridge Recorders, which pre-date the specification. But any
flight that is 10 years old or more is history.

The 8-digit filename came about when DOS and Windows where limited to
8-digits. The specification now allows for Long Filenames (see
Specification Appendix 1 Paragraph 2.5.2) but no-one seems to use them.

In the unlikely event of a clash of filenames being problematical,
rename them to the long format. Problem Solved.

Tim Newport-Peace

"Indecision is the Key to Flexibility."