Re: [MacPerl] Y2K complience

[Gary Ebert <gary@rdss.com>]

Tony Barry wrote:
> 
> I just noticed that a localtime  returns a two digit year.  Is MacPerl Y2K
> complient?
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> Tony
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localtime does NOT return a 2 digit year.  It returns then number of
years since 1900.  e.g. in the year 2032 it will return 132 not 32.


	Hope this helps,
					Gary
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