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Re: Perl 5.004 year 2000 compliant ? (Re: [whimsy@tkg.att.ne.jp: perl5.004?$B$N?(B 2000?$BG/LdBj$K4X$7$F?(B])



According to Robert Collier:
> IIRC perl5 is y2k compliant, perl4 *isn't*.  Or at least gmtime &
> localtime prior to perl5 returned the year as the final 2 digits of
> the year number, in perl 5 it returns years since 1900.

This is a myth.  Perl 4 is broken in many aspects, but Y2K isn't one
of them.
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Chip Salzenberg             - a.k.a. -              <chip@valinux.com>
     "Fleagal.  Bingo.  Drooper.  Snork.  They're cops."   //MST3K


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