Anytime I see calendar versioning I assume one or more of the following are true about the project/package: - it is poorly maintained - the authors are being

Anytime I see calendar versioning I assume one or more of the following are true about the project/package: - it is poorly maintained - the authors are being lazy - it's some kind of unofficial patch or build - marketing has taken over - nostalgia (for Windows 95?) or imitating turn of the century project marketing I don't think there's a good reason to ever deviate from the simple [$MAJOR_CHANGES].[$NEW_FEATURES].[$PATCH]. I don't even think it needs to be formally specified (looking at you SemVer). Simple 3-tuple versioning is almost universally understood. Why fix what isn't broken?