Re: Petty, small-minded and mean spirited

On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 12:22:27 -0500, "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote: >Interesting I see something altogether different: > >Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >> >> >So, how DID they read? >> >> Guess they fixed them, huh? :-) > >Myabe this IS a browser problem. I am using Netscape 4.7. Lots of sites had 19100, it could likely be a perl programming error since perl returns the number of years since 1900 as the year (therefore '100' in the year 2000), and alot of newbie perl programmers have been assuming that since its been two digits up till now, it wasn't y2k compliant, or they've just been pasting the year onto the '19', and now they're being bitten by not RTFM. Cheers, Douglas Wilson

Douglas Wilson <dwilson@gtemail.net> wrote: > On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 12:22:27 -0500, "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote: > >>Interesting I see something altogether different: >> >>Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >>> > >>> >So, how DID they read? >>> >>> Guess they fixed them, huh? :-) >> >>Myabe this IS a browser problem. I am using Netscape 4.7. > > Lots of sites had 19100, it could likely be a perl programming error > since perl returns the number of years since 1900 as the year > (therefore '100' in the year 2000), and alot of newbie perl > programmers have been assuming that since its been two digits > up till now, it wasn't y2k compliant, or they've just been pasting the > year onto the '19', and now they're being bitten by not RTFM. > Maybe people ought to take a stroll over to comp.lang.perl.misc and check out the fun ;-} /J\\ -- "If I was going to wear a wig I'd choose something a lot better than this" - Barry Norman