Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:54:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Jagielski <jim@devsys.jaguNET.com> To: dan@jgl.reno.nv.us (Dan O'Connor) Cc: jim@jaguNET.com, elgreen@iname.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD not Y2K compliant? Message-ID: <199908170154.VAA23152@devsys.jaguNET.com> In-Reply-To: <007d01bee84f$0f777520$0200000a@home> from "Dan O'Connor" at Aug 16, 99 06:22:34 pm
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Dan O'Connor wrote:
>
> This brings up a side issue...
>
> Scripts that simply display the value from tm_year are going to show '100'
> in 2000.
>
> Anyone out their who has written scripts like this (it's common in Perl for
> CGI's) should check them. I've seen more than one script print out "1999" by
> doing this:
>
> printf("Year = 19%s\n",t->tm_year);
>
> which, come next January will read "19100". The better way to do it is:
>
> printf("Year = %s\n",1900 + t->tm_year);
>
That's right. FreeBSD has been scanned (and fixed) for those
programs that did the former instead of the latter, but custom
or local programs may still have that.
PS: That '%s' should be '%d' :) :)
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