for the date in backup filenames, I would use something like the ls -l modif time format :
orig.2008-11-26_16:05
or
orig.2008.11.26__16.05

instead of

orig.11.26.08__16.05

Because it's sortable and is more worldwide compliant.

tag -1 +wontfix
thanks

Hi Marc e.a.,

Hope this reply after 15 years is still useful to someone...

Le Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:46:48AM +0200, Marc MAURICE a écrit :

Yes, that would've been better indeed.  Even better would've been

 % date --iso-8601=minutes
 2025-05-05T12:30+02:00

(or even "date --iso-8601=ns").

However, migrating a filetraq installation from the old to the new
format would be intrusive.  Therefore I choose not to try to implement
this.  If _you_ would like to craft a patch, and if an upgrade scenario
would be implemented too, than I'm very willing to reconsider.

Thanks, Bye,

Joost