> > encoded date).  It doesn't provide the functionality they are
> > striving for.

        actually, I think it does.

> > However, I don't see any meaningful reason for them not to do this either.
> 
> I am a (currently unemployed) mouse.  I worry when the cat announces
> changes that the cat says are of no interest to mice.
> 
> I worry especially when I can not clearly see a benifit to either cat
> or mice.

        Look again.  They may wish to make more than 99 updates
        a day to the zone(s) and the yyyymmddxx format is kind of
        restrictive in that regard.

--bill

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