"Robert Elliott (Admin)" wrote:
> 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'.
sigh. it's not because of perl.
it's due to the way struct tm is in libc. perl is just reproducing that
behaviour.
man localtime(3)
kevin
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