Ok so there is not actual standard
by increase you mean numberically have a higher value?
if it was to be less than the previous value, i assume something
dreadful
would happen
Dean
Peter Samuel wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
>
> > Right...
> > so by the look of things the serial number is just the date in reverse?
> > eg YYYYMMDD ??
>
> The serial number is anything you want it to be. Many people use the
> date as above, along with a few extra digits to cope with multiple
> updates in the same day. Others use the unix epoch time which is
> currently:
>
> 962170013
>
> The only rule is that the number must increase after every change to
> the file.
>
> Regards
> Peter
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