Y2K Bug in Pilot Manager?

[rays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ray Salemi - Sun BOS Hardware)]

Hi,

I have an appointment that is in 2002, but the Manager won't sync it.  I know
that the Perl date function uses two digits for a date.  Does the manager have
a Y2K bug?

Ray

PS.  A little Y2K humor

>
>   Two Digits for a Date
>    (to the tune of "Gilligan's Island")
>
>     Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
>     Of the doom that is our fate.
>     That started when programmers used
>     Two digits for a date.
>     Two digits for a date.
>
>     Main memory was smaller then;
>     Hard disks were smaller, too.
>     "Four digits are extravagant,
>     So let's get by with two.
>     So let's get by with two."
>
>     "This works through 1999,"
>     The programmers did say.
>     "Unless we rewrite before that
>     It all will go away.
>     It all will go away."
>
>     But Management had not a clue:
>     "It works fine now, you bet!
>     A rewrite is a straight expense;
>     We won't do it just yet.
>     We won't do it just yet."
>
>     Now when 2000 rolls around
>     It all goes straight to hell,
>     For zero's less than ninety-nine,
>     As anyone can tell.
>     As anyone can tell.
>
>     The mail won't bring your pension check.
>     It won't be sent to you
>     When you're no longer sixty-eight,
>     But minus thirty-two.
>     But minus thirty-two.
>
>     The problems we're about to face
>     Are frightening, for sure.
>     And reading every line of code's
>     The only certain cure.
>     The only certain cure.
>
>     [key change, big finish]
>     There's not much time,
>     There's too much code.
>     (And Cobol-coders, few)
>     When the century is finished with,
>     We may be finished, too.
>     We may be finished, too.
>
>     Eight thousand years from now I hope
>     That things weren't left too late,
>     And people aren't then lamenting
>     Four digits for a date.
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Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 3 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osver=2.5.1, archname=sun4-solaris
    uname='sunos m-e-ir1 5.5.1 generic sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-1 '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O', gccversion=
    cppflags=''
    ccflags =''
    stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    voidflags=15, castflags=0, d_casti32=define, d_castneg=define
    intsize=4, alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, randbits=15
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =''
    libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-Kpic', lddlflags='-G'


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