Re: What needs patched to fix this ?

[Michael Salmon <Michael.Salmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brian Servis wrote:
> 
> *- On  1 Jan, Larry W. Virden wrote about "What needs patched to fix this ?"
> > When I did a PilotManager sync today, I see:
> >
> > 01/01/100  7:39:00   Please press the Hotsync button on your Pilot cradle
> >       ^^^
> >
> > I am using version 1.107 of PilotManager
> 
> This is a perl issue.  I don't speak perl but have seen lots of these
> perl date problems discussed on the net over the last 24hrs.  Apparently
> one of the perl date functions returns the date as a diff from 1900.  So
> the programmer is sloppy.  There were lots of places that would just put
> a text string of '19' and then append the date so places where reporting
> the date as 19100.  Sorry I don't know where the problem is in the code.
> Just passing on the info.

Actually it is the value returned from the C library, not really a
problem with perl. I agree with the sloppiness comment though.

/Michael
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