According to Simon J. Gerraty:
> 
> Anyway, I thought the following format might be more useful for simple
> parsing.
> 
> $ uname -r 
> 1.0A.95.08.18
> 
> Having separators b/w year month and day allows picking them out
> easily.
> 
> Thoughts?  In the absence of better suggestions I'll send-pr it with
> the extra '.'s
> 

I like this very much.  I makes good sense to me.  

But what will the "official" (1.1 or 1.0.1 ?) releases look like?  
Isn't this mainly useful for -current, only?

-- /d