On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:02 AM Bob van der Poel <b...@mellowood.ca> wrote: > > I'm surprised that no one has yet addressed the year 10000 problem. Hopefully > we're doing numeric, not alpha sorts on the stuff before the 1st '-'. And, > the compact versions will really screw up :). >
Compact versions? You mean non-delimited dates? They sort just fine numerically: 20190204 99991231 100000101 They also sort just fine if you add a two-digit serial number: 2017081702 2017120801 2019011300 and while it's true that this format will overflow in two thousand years if stored in a 32-bit number, it's fine for arbitrary future dates if stored in bignums. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
