From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 8 16:43:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA14118 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:43:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA14113 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:43:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id LAA22928; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 11:12:40 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701090042.LAA22928@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Year 2000 time change(Format support) In-Reply-To: <199701081022.CAA25400@freefall.freebsd.org> from Darren Reed at "Jan 8, 97 09:22:29 pm" To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 11:12:39 +1030 (CST) Cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Darren Reed stands accused of saying: > > Are there any cases where software calculates a year that is in the range > 0-99 and then adds that to 1900 ? > > Or any that displays 19%d ? Why would you? Anyone with half a brain is just going to use strftime(). > darren -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[