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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I once worked in a software shop where all release packages had the Unix epoch timestamp in the filename. Yes, these sorted brilliantly making it trivial to find the last one. But good luck finding a build from a specific date/time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

just wildcard for n digits