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On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 12:40:52AM -0000, derek@dongray.fsnet.co.uk (via RT) wrote:
> At 00:35:26 31 oct 2003 GMT, the one-liner:
>
> perl -e '@l=gmtime();for(@l){print;print qq{ }}'
>
> produces:
>
> 26 35 0 31 9 103 5 303 0
>
> I.e. the year is returned as 103 instead of 2003.
> localtime() produces the same result.
This is, alas, how localtime() and gmtime() work. :(
$year is the number of years since 1900. That is,
$year is 123 in year 2023.
This is because Perl's localtime() parrots the interface of C's localtime().
Presumably C did it that way so that it could fit the year in 8 bits (ie.
0 to 255).
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