svn commit: samba r8759 - in branches/SAMBA_4_0/source: libnet torture/libnet

tridge at samba.org tridge at samba.org
Mon Jul 25 23:52:10 GMT 2005


Andrew,

 > While I can agree to some extent on your last point, I have to disagree
 > on the use of text strings for dates.

indeed!

 >  While that might be quite fine in a scripting language (that's
 > what they are good for),

strings for dates in scripting languages is horrible too. The language
should provide a way to format as a pretty string when outputting to a
human, but using strings for the internal representation is awful.

Cheers, Tridge


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