Disney-comics Database
Bror Hellman
hellman at proxxi.uf.se
Sat Feb 26 11:56:42 CET 1994
Fredrik Ekman:
> > Data fields:
> >
> > [...]
> > - number of entire pages (2 characters should be enough...)
> if some lunatic were to index these in the future and did not know (or
> did not care) about this, he/she would need three characters. So if we
> can afford three characters for this field, I suggest we use that, just
> to make sure.
Ouch! Well, I feel the pain in my gut.. :-) I'm one of there "lunatics"
to Index these. Please leave three characters...
> > - (start) date, in the form yy/mm/dd
>
> Isn't the international standard yy-mm-dd? If I didn't get some kind of
> explanation, yy/mm/dd would confuse me at least.
WHy don't we just skip the separators all together? (yymdd) It'll save two
bytes off every record.
Steamboat Willie
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