Re: cvs: php4 / php.ini-recommended

If Set 1 was truly empty, I'd agree with you. -Rasmus On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > My worry is that this change appears to have absolutely no positive > > aspects and only negative potential. We know browsers exist that cannot > > handle 4-digit years. Early WebTV boxes don't, early Netscape don't. We > > do not know of any browsers that cannot handle 2-digit years. Hence I > > fail to see the upside with this change. > > Well, let me restate that pure existance of software does not > matter. I still have NT 4.0 with a MSIE 2 in the desk -- it > exists, but you don't design applications for it anymore. It > is the actual use which counts. For further confirmation of > this, you just need to look at major web stores such as > amazon.com. They are not afraid of making the move to > 4-digit years. > > Let us consider two sets > > 1: Browsers in use which handle only 2-digit years > 2: Browsers in use which handle only 4-digit years properly > > While both sets may be empty at this time, a safe and natural > prediction is that the size of the second set will increase. > The first one will not change and remain at 0 for obvious > reasons. > > And therefore I've introduced this proactive change. > > - Sascha >