Many years ago, when I was first on the web, there was a lot of perl code going around by a person which I will call Matt Wrong.

Roll on the year 2000. All of a sudden, a lot of perl coded forums (and such) displayed the year as 19100.

Of course, the reason was the '19' was hard coded and the tenary years was a counter... the counter reached 100... ha ha.

Great times. On slashdot a few years later was a post on what the 2000's should be called (i.e. swingng sixties, etc..). I suggested the '19100's' which got a lot of feedback

So, the moral of this story is let the system do the work - why code your own time stuff?

$date=`date`; *

... and then fiddle with it.

Nick

* man date

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