Re: [MacPerl] Y2K complience

[David McWherter <dtm@water.waterw.com>]

localtime() returns a 2 digit year in all systems under perl, as far as I
can gather.  I'm not sure what the reprecussions of this are when the year
2000 rolls around, but I note that localtime, can, at least on UNIX
systems, return a 4-digit year when localtime is evaluated in a scalar
context:

	my $str = localtime;
	print $str, "\n";

The above outputs "Wed Jun 18 08:28:50 1997" for me...

The perl manpage under unix says that the year value comes straight out
of a tm structure (ok, all of the values...), and upon looking up 'man
localtime' on Solaris, it popped up a description of the year field in a
tm structure.  It seems to be set to the current year minus 1900.  So, I
presume that on the year 2000, you'll get "100" in the year position from
localtime, and in 2001, you'll get 101, in 2002, you'll get 102, etc...

-David

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On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Tony Barry wrote:

> I just noticed that a localtime  returns a two digit year.  Is MacPerl Y2K
> complient?
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