Curious dating behavior in PMMail 2000

Brian Morrison pmmail@rpglink.com
Mon, 03 Apr 2000 18:27:42 +0100


On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 17:40:10 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:

>Quite a few such programs did go wrong! Typically such programs
>output the year as "100" (but other errors are possible).
>

One of the common functions in various places returns year-1900 for
years up to and including 1999 and the year itself for 2000 onwards.

That's why so many websites had dates like 100, 19100, 192000 and 3900.

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