Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 19:26:26 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing localtime() behaviour Message-ID: <199607231926.TAA18599@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960723092923.19204A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com> from "Brandon Gillespie" at Jul 23, 96 09:30:39 am
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> > How would one go about changing the behavior of localtime() so that > the value for struct tm.tm_year has the thousands in the year, ala '1996' > rather than just '96'? Actually, the tm_year field is the number of years since 1900, which is not the same as the last two digits in the year (eg the year 2007 would have a tm_year value of 107). So if you're doing this to find out which century you're in, that problem has already been solved for you! Also, changing this would break compatibility with ISO C or POSIX, and may cause other programs to work incorrectly. If you really want to hack around with the source, it's in /usr/src/lib/libc/stdtime, but I'd recommend writing your own function rather than messing around with the system one.
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