On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Miles wrote:
> I was just messing around a bit with some javascript here, and noticed
> that if you do something like the following:
>> now = new Date();
> var CurYear = now.getYear();
> document.write(CurYear);
>> It will report the current year as 2000 in IExplode, but as 100 in
> Netscrape 4.5. Strange, huh?
Interesting. In perl, date returns year minus 1900, so conventional wisdom
has it you add 1900. So was the javascript thingy in nescape written in
perl, I wonder? Anyway, I'd guess that some idiot put in half a check;
something along the lines of 'if year < 100 year += 1900'.
Not your traditional y2k bug, but more of some dope half-thinking about
the millennium and implementing what our french cousins would call 'un
solution demi-arsee'.
As an offtopic aside: follow the link and ask youself which ilugger's .sig
springs immediately to the skull?
http://www.russiaworld.com/wwwboard7/messages/503.html
robert
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