Re: If-Modified-Since and 304

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> Date: Thursday, 10-Mar-94 19:20:00 GMT
> Last-modified: Thursday, 10-Feb-94 22:23:32 GMT

Why can't new standards use 4-digit years?  Is character-for-character
compliance with outdated standards really necessary?  Why is there a
reluctance to move away from 2-digit years?

(personally, I'd even go a step further than that and use ISO dates
like 1994-03-10, but that's not quite as human friendly, but great for
sorting :-)

rik (depressed person trying to do automated searching/sorting, etc).
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