What does (epoch 0 < 2 ) mean?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 21, 2011, at 09:16, Scott C. Kennedy wrote:

> The following installed ports are outdated:
> atk                            1.33.6_0 < 1.32.0_0  (epoch 0 < 2)  
> gdk-pixbuf2                    2.23.0_1 < 2.22.1_1  (epoch 0 < 2)  

> But, I uninstalled the "newer" versions and had the older ones? What happened? According to 'port outdated' I am running the most recent     versions, although I've downloaded  newer version but not compiled it. 

atk and gdk-pixbuf2 were inadvertently updated to unstable development versions. The versions you have now are the latest stable versions.