Re: [MacPerl] Y2K complience

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us>]

This is a Perl problem, not specifically a MacPerl problem, and it isn't a
problem anyway.  localtime returns (year - 1900).   So 2000 will return
(does return; try it, you can give localtime an argument) 100, not 00.  The
only MacPerl specific thing that occurs in the time routines is that the
Mac zero of time is 1904, so when you use Time::Local and you mean 2006,
you have to give a year of 106.  (On a Unix box, there are unique 2 digit
years for its entire span of years, since the range there is 1970 - 2038,
and you can use them in Time::Local).

(Hmm, let's see if this funky new PGP 5.0 stuff works from Eudora.)

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