Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 18:22:34 -0700 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> To: <jim@jaguNET.com>, "Eric Lee Green" <elgreen@iname.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD not Y2K compliant? Message-ID: <007d01bee84f$0f777520$0200000a@home> References: <199908162245.SAA21886@devsys.jaguNET.com>
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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);
(Or something similar; my C is a bit rusty :-)
--Dan
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Jagielski <jim@devsys.jaguNET.com>
To: Eric Lee Green <elgreen@iname.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD not Y2K compliant?
> int tm_year; /* year - 1900 */
>
> It's supposed to do that.
>
> Eric Lee Green wrote:
> >
> > The below prints "99" instead of "1999" :-(. AGH! I thought I left that
behind
> > with Xenix!
> >
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <time.h>
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> > int main (int argc,char **argv) {
> > struct *tm t;
> > time_t today;
> > today=time(NULL);
> > t=localtime(&today);
> > printf("Year = %s\n",t->tm_year);
> > }
> >
> >
> > --
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> > mail: e_l_green@hotmail.com
> > ^^^^^^^ Burdening Microsoft with SPAM!
> >
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