• @seralth@lemmy.world
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    44 days ago

    And you assume that changes to filesystems, new filesystems being created or other such things won’t at some point create a edge case that creates a problem?

    When you could just be safe? Sounds stupid as fuck to me to blindly trust nothing will happen to create problems.

    • shnizmuffin
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      34 days ago

      They’ve never had to recover a hard drive. It’s okay, they’ll learn the hard way.

    • @absentbird@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      I understand you feel very strongly about four digit years, but I really don’t see any situation that I couldn’t sort out with a simple script.

      Usually I don’t put dates in file names in the first place, but when I do I use the UTC timestamp; a date without a timezone is inherently fuzzy, and it’s easier to compare and differentiate numerical times.

      If someone used two digit years in their naming convention I wouldn’t even blink, let alone get the woodchipper, life is too short to get angry over stuff like that.