Re: Y2K question

[David Eduardo Gomez Noguera <davidgn at servidor dot unam dot mx>]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote:
dont know, but i have seen the same behavior with netscape and javascript,
showing ddates as 100 or in some cases 99, instead of 2000.
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering why the next code returned 100 as year when current date
> is past y2k. 
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <time.h>
> 
> int main()
> {
>         time_t seconds70;
>         struct tm *timeinfo;
> 
>         seconds70 = time(&seconds70);
>         timeinfo = gmtime(&seconds70);
>         printf( "%.2d/%.2d/%.2d\n",
>                         timeinfo->tm_mday,
>                         (timeinfo->tm_mon + 1),
>                         timeinfo->tm_year);
> 
>         return 0;
> }
> 
> Is it to make the difference between 1900 and 2000 ?
> 
> In any way, in my sense, it's more of a bug than a feature because
> obviously timeinfo->tm_year is mean to be a 2-digits value. Has anyone
> any explaination on this ?
> 
> 
> Wolfgang
> -- 
> Les nombres imitent l'espace, qui est de nature si différente.
> Pascal, Pensées
> 
> 
>