IGC File Name Decoding Made Easy

hannu wrote:
"David Kinsell" wrote in message
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Or, could be 1995. Or 2015. With all the stink about Y2K,
it's a little surprising they came up with a scheme that has
a 10 year rollover problem.


NOW it would be very easy decode the year by base 36 number to push the
problem until 2035...

That's the weird thing. They used digits and characters for the date,
they used digits and characters for the month, and just used digits
for the year.



Only they decided on format in the last millenium.


Yep. I guess some people just can't think ahead :-)


hannu