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Re: Y2K Bug in Pilot Manager?
- To: rays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ray Salemi - Sun BOS Hardware)
- Subject: Re: Y2K Bug in Pilot Manager?
- From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: 27 Apr 1998 22:31:47 -0700
- Cc: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: rays@dagny.East.Sun.COM's message of "Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:13:06 -0400"
- Organization: Discordian Alliance For Teaching
- References: <199804271413.KAA05688@dagny.East.Sun.COM>
- Sender: owner-pilotmgr
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Ray Salemi, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>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?
Perl doesn't use two digits for a date, it gives the years from 1900.
Excerpted from perldoc -f date:
>the range 0..6 with sunday as day 0. Also, $year is the number of
>years since 1900, that is, $year is 123 in year 2023.
Darren
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