DNS - Year 2043 apocalypse ;-)

Peter Svensson petersv at psv.nu
Thu Jan 6 18:12:08 UTC 2000


On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Alex Miller wrote:
> > From: scott at nts.nts.umn.edu [mailto:scott at nts.nts.umn.edu]On Behalf Of
> > what you're trying isn't recommended.  To get
> > close to what you want, you might want to use
> > 	YYYYMMDDss
> > This format will be valid until 2147.
> 
> Don't you mean YYYYMMDDHH
> not YYYYMMDDss?

Probably not. The YYYYMMDDss gormat is one of the most popular formats for
the serial number. The ss is not seconds, it is a serail number which is
reset to zero each day. This allows 100 changes a day. 

Peter
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