Re: Meta v2 missing information on how to compare versions

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On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:28 +0100, "Zefram" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Michael G Schwern wrote:
> >(What does the 101091 part of 2.101091 mean anyway?)
> 
> Looks like it's embedding "10-109", an abbreviated ISO 8601 format for
> 2010-109, aka 2010-04-19.  (Today is the 109th day of the year;
> specifying
> the date in this manner is known in ISO 8601 as an "ordinal date".)
> Final "1" is a sequence number within the day?

Yes. (Dist::Zilla is quickly making this style of version numbering not
uncommon.)

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