Re: [MacPerl] Strange time output

[Eric Albert <ejalbert@cs.stanford.edu>]

At 7:18 PM +0100 1/11/00, Martin D. wrote:
>#! perl -w
>
>($day, $month, $year) = (localtime) [3,4,5];
>$timestamp = sprintf("%02d-%02d-%02d\n", $year, $month+1, $day);
>
>print "$timestamp";
>
>this produces:
>100-01-11
>
>Shouldn't it produce:
>00-01-11

Nope...localtime's year is the current year - 1900, so for 2000, that's 100.

-Eric, who made exactly the same mistake two years ago, but didn't 
realize it until last week

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Eric Albert                     ejalbert@cs.stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~ejalbert/

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