does anyone know if DBMan's date routines are Y2K ready?
TimRyan
TimRyan
Aug 17, 1999, 9:16 PM
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Aug 17, 1999, 9:16 PM
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Yes. DBMan is completely Y2K compliant.
Many people are concerned about the code in sub get_date:
No need to be, though. In Unix (and probably NT, Windows and Macs), the $year value is the number of years since 1900. This year, the value is 99, so "$year = $year + 1900" results in 1999. Next year, the value will be 100, so "$year = $year + 1900" results in 2000.
There are some scripts which just tacked on a "19" in front of the year value like this:
$year = "19" . $year;
The result is the same this year, but next year the result would be
19100
Not good!
So, yes, DBMan is completely Y2K compliant.
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JPD
Many people are concerned about the code in sub get_date:
Code:
$year = $year + 1900;No need to be, though. In Unix (and probably NT, Windows and Macs), the $year value is the number of years since 1900. This year, the value is 99, so "$year = $year + 1900" results in 1999. Next year, the value will be 100, so "$year = $year + 1900" results in 2000.
There are some scripts which just tacked on a "19" in front of the year value like this:
$year = "19" . $year;
The result is the same this year, but next year the result would be
19100
Not good!
So, yes, DBMan is completely Y2K compliant.
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JPD