Re: [MacPerl] Millenium Bug (was: re: newbie alert :-) question on the date thing...)

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

> Which of course prompts me to ask... is it Unix, MacOS, Perl or MacPerl
> that limits the year to 2 digits?

I might have missed the beginning of this argument, but if this is in
regards to what localtime returns for the year value, it's not really
a two digit number, it's the current year minus 1900.  So, when 2000 rolls
around localtime will return 100, and in 2001, it'll return 101, etc.

If I'm completely off base here, just ignore me...(as usual :-)


-David

 
> At what level would one need to make a "fix" to get the year to return
> *all* the digits... or are we once again fighting the 32bit limit here?
> (*all* the digits, not "all four")
> 
> A 64 bit time field would give us a few more years to play with... but I
> suppose I'm tilting at windmills already...
> 
> -Alex
> 
> Windows 95: n. 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch
> to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor,
> written by a 2 bit company.
> 
> 
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