are we just talking digital because i've inherited archives. my current one only goes back to the 1950s but in the next decades i expect to get some going back centuries.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Here you go gramps:

(shortD) => {
    return parseInt(shortD.slice(0, 2), 10) > 50 ? "19" + shortD : "20"+shortD;
}

[–] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Did the software industry learn nothing from Y2K? Was it too long ago already for people to remember the mess we made for ourselves?

Saving two characters in a file name is not worth the hell you are leaving in your trail by shoving this nonsense in an obscure corner of production code that people are going to forget about until it's too late.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Their grandchildren will be pissing on their graves over it.

I often wonder what files may outlive me.

People have kept old physical remnants. There are obviously famous examples but there are far more mediocre examples.

All the unique content I've created fits on a modestly sized hard drive so keeping it around would be trivial compared to maintaining all those physical remnants.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

It's just a filename, calm down. The created by date is tracked by the file system and the repo.

[–] seralth@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

And you assume that changes to filesystems, new filesystems being created or other such things won't at some point create a edge case that creates a problem?

When you could just be safe? Sounds stupid as fuck to me to blindly trust nothing will happen to create problems.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I understand you feel very strongly about four digit years, but I really don't see any situation that I couldn't sort out with a simple script.

Usually I don't put dates in file names in the first place, but when I do I use the UTC timestamp; a date without a timezone is inherently fuzzy, and it's easier to compare and differentiate numerical times.

If someone used two digit years in their naming convention I wouldn't even blink, let alone get the woodchipper, life is too short to get angry over stuff like that.

[–] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

Until people start applying the same logic everywhere for consistency, not just in file names.

[–] ScintillatingStruthio@programming.dev 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

So do I, but I don't think I need to worry too much about confusing them with 2090.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

Now the alphabetical view doesn't sort them by date

[–] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Just you wait...

[–] ScintillatingStruthio@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

I mean, I could hope to live that long!