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To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@clari.net.au
Subject: Re: Y2K & tm_struct
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From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net>
Date: 24 Feb 1998 09:38:17 -0600
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peter@clari.net.au writes:
> Please email any responses
> 
> As I understand it, tm_year == year-1900 so the year 2000 will be 100.
> isn't this going to get rather confusing every time we do a "touch"
> or whatever? wouldn't it be better to have a superset-definition such as:
> 
> year-1900  (year<1900)
> year       (year>1900)
> 
> so that 2000 can be represented either as 2000 or 100 ?

Gee, that sounds MORE confusing to me!  I guess I don't really
understand the problem.

-Dave

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