2/1     I've added a new feature in Motd IntelliDiff so that everytime you
O       click RELOAD, the browser remembers what you saw before and what's new,
        and highlights everything that's new. It's like motdwatch but prettier.
        Try it:            http://csua.berkeley.edu/~kchang/intellidiff/?incr=1
        \_ How are you getting the motd these days, kchang?  Still through
           finger?
           \_ no jrleek, I don't finger anymore, that's nasty.
        \_ you still need to add the ability to understand "1/3/04" as a date
           (instead of 2004).
          \_ no, I refuse to accept that as a valid, worldly accepted format.
             "~/bin/kais 1/3/2004" will be the format.
             \_ No date format is worldly accepted.  In Europe it would
                be: 3/1/2004.  In Korea: 2004/3/1 -jrleek
                \_ in the case of 3/1/2004, the year is last so by prior
                   knowledge you imply the month/day. In the second case,
                   the year is the first so by prior knowledge you know that
                   3 must be the month and 1 must be the day. With 1/3/4, it
                   is ambiguous as the year/day/month could be any position.
                   If you want dd/dd/dd to be accepted, write your own wrapper,
                   it is not that hard.
                   \_ There are both RFC's describing standard date formats
                      that should be used and ISO standards for
                      writing/recording dates.  That said, this is really one
                      of those Postel's law situations. -dans
        \_ Um i missed the date discussion but i saw it in the archive. Here's
           my take: 2/2/4 or 04 is not ambiguous. You can simply assume that
           if none of them are a full year, then the last one is a YY one.
           It's a motd written in English and we use normal conventions here
           in the motd. There should be no question about this. A valid
           objection would be unwillingness to do extra work which would be
           fine.
           \_ # lots of lame ways, here is one lame verbose way:
              if ($ARGV[0]=~m|(\d\d)|(\d\d)|(\d\d)|) {
                $mon=$1; $day=$2; $year=$3;   # for stupid U.S. setting
                # $year=$1; $month=$2; $day=$3;   # for international setting
                $year+=2000;
                system("/home/apollo/kchang/bin/kais $year/$month/$day");
              }