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[Mike Andrews]

Yup, that's how I do it too, either $year % 100 or $year + 1900.

Apparently a few CGI scripts out there in the world were printing
"19100" for the year today.  Heh.


Mike Andrews (MA12) * mandrews at dcr.net * http://www.bit0.com/
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On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Gregg Casillo wrote:

> Yeah, we ran into a problem with this today. A schedule we use to
> display KET's programming was looking for "jan100" at midnight last
> night. Dave Hempy, another Perlmonger and fellow KET hacker came up with
> the following solution:
> 
> $year = $year % 100;
> $year = sprintf("%02d",$year);
> 
> If you want to work with the entire four digit year, I guess you'd add
> 1900 to your year and go from there. But if you've been working with two
> digits, this works quite well.
> 
> Felice Nuovo Anno,
> Gregg Casillo
> 
> Rich Bowen wrote:
> 
> > > perl -e '@time = localtime; print $time[5], "\n"' ;
> > 100
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Rich
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