Re: Meta v2 missing information on how to compare versions

Zefram 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?

Ahh.  Ironic.  I was thinking v2.1.20100419 might make sense (major release 
#2, minor release #1, on 2010.04.19), but its disallowed.  v2.1.10.04.19 
remains possible (y3k bug, woo!)


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