Re: It's 2007

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>      * lib/version-etc.c (COPYRIGHT_YEAR): Bump for new year.
>
>> --- lib/version-etc.c   13 Sep 2006 22:38:14 -0000      1.24
>> +++ lib/version-etc.c   1 Jan 2007 15:05:49 -0000
>
> Thanks, but that's more than 15 hours late (UTC)!  Tsk, tsk.
>
> I suppose we could build a checkin bot that would do this
> automatically, at exactly the right time.  But then we'd have to argue
> about the time zone.  Perhaps version-etc.c should autoconfigure
> itself for the maintainer's time zone?  (:-)

FYI, coreutils' Makefile.maint has a rule (copyright-check)
to check for that.  So it would have been fixed right after
my first coreutils "make distcheck" of the new year.