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Why is this happening ?
I've never noticed this before but when I build my pages I see this

Pages built on 31-Dec-1969 at 18:00:00

Clearly that is not right but I can't figure out where its getting the date from

Can anyone help ?

Sean
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Re: [Seanhk] Why is this happening ? In reply to
Mine also just recently started doing this. The date shows correctly on the built pages, but the admin is confused. At first I thought "so what" but then I noticed at every build it says "backup exists for today---skipping" so my backups are not current. Have not looked in to the problem yet, but I will...


Leonard
The One True Church
(Links-based site using all-CSS, and many mods to the basic script.)
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Re: [PerlFlunkie] Why is this happening ? In reply to
Hi Leonard,

Any news on this issue ?

My submissions are all showing up as being from 1969 !!

Sean
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According to CPAN (official module site for things like Time::Local:

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The whole scheme for interpreting two-digit years can be considered a bug.


That's the basic problem...

I searched for awhile, and looked over my codes, but I don't see the problem. here is what I have:

Pages build with correct date, and the date in the admin add field is correct. problem comes when building, the date reads as
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Pages built on 31-Dec-1969 at 19:00:00

and if the add form (add.cgi) is used, the date shows up as 31-Dec-1969. All backups have stopped, as they all have that date ('69).

My host is using Perl 5.005_3, and my date routines are all stock.

Any clues out there? I get no errors, and since the date shows correctly on built pages, I'm confused as to where the problem lies...

Mad Frown Crazy Pirate Unimpressed


Leonard
The One True Church
(Links-based site using all-CSS, and many mods to the basic script.)