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Cc: Andreas Beckmann <andreas.beckmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch] Pad year in savegame names with leading zeros
From: Paul Zastoupil <paulz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:51:02 -0700 
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:11:37AM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 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.

I ended up writing a short perl script called sortsav.
But it would be nicer to not need it.

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Paul Zastoupil
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