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Re: [ID 20000307.005] Date Problem
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From:
Jeff Pinyan
Date:
March 7, 2000 08:46
Subject:
Re: [ID 20000307.005] Date Problem
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.21.0003071144390.21801-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net
On Mar 7, Tom Christiansen said:
>>$month =
>>(January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,September,October,Novembe
>>r,December)[(localtime)[3]];
>
>Good.
>
>>$day =
>>(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,
>>29,30,31)[(localtime)[3]];
>
>That's not what localtime is documented to do. Some are offsets,
>some aren't.
You didn't fry him on the fact that he used (localtime)[3] for both list
offsets (month and day). He should have used (localtime)[4] for the month
offset.
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