[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch] Pad year in savegame names with leading zeros

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:33:11AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I thinks it's useful to add leading zeroes to the year in generated savegame
> names (autosave and default filename). Always show 4 digits (and perhaps the
> sign to indcate BC). So saves can be listed in cronological order using ls
> etc. and won't get mixed (there is still a jump between BC and AD). [Patch]

I support this since I have also struggled with such problems.

        Raimar

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