Copyright year as %d

[Thomas Thurman <tthurman gnome org>]

I have to change the string

"Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Havoc Pennington, Red Hat, Inc., and others\n"

because of the new year.  Is there any reason I shouldn't change it to

"Copyright (C) 2001-%d Havoc Pennington, Red Hat, Inc., and others\n"

and supply the year in the code, so I won't be making all the 
translators change the string every year?  Is there any locale out there 
that doesn't represent the year 2009 in the same way it represents the 
decimal number 2009?

Thomas