OT: 10.4 or 10.04

[Gurus Knugum]

Den 2010-09-06 18:35:05 skrev ms <devicerandom at gmail.com>:

> On 06/09/10 17:07, Rashkae wrote:
>> M.R. wrote:
>>
>>> To me, 10.4 and 10.04 is the same. In case of Ubuntu version numbers,
>>> "4" (or "04" if we are to follow the vendor's style) denotes month of
>>> April. If anything, those that for reasons best known to themselves
>>> decided that a month ordinal number should be written with a leading
>>> zero are probably the first to deserve some criticism. But it hardly
>>> matters...
>>>
>>> mr
>>>
>>>
>>
>> No, it really matters.  Ubuntu people know that the numbers used for
>> versions are chosen based on date of release, but that's not in any way
>> a convention.  For the rest of the world, the higher the version number,
>> the newer the release.
>>
>> 10.4>  10.1>  10.04   You see?  If you refer to 10.04 as 10.4, you are
>> implying it's a newer release than 10.10
>
> The confusion arises because they use a dot to separate year and month,
> creating the misconception that they are "classical" release numbers.
> They should write it down 10/4, 10/10, 11/4 , that is, like *dates*,
> because that's what they are.
>
>
In that case they should follow the ISO-6801 date format, that is  
YYYY-MM-DD (or in this case only YYYY-DD or YY-DD), which in these cases  
will be 10-04, 10-10 and 11-04. But 2010-04 is more obvious and easier to  
understand.

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Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg