I don't see how you arrive at this conclusion. When I modify the input dates to read 200 and 205 respectively, the program crashes. When I modify the dates to be 2000 and 2005 respectively, the program completes properly.

This program shows how the year is handled:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::Piece;

my $t2 = localtime;
print "Time is $t2\n";
print "Year is ", $t2->year, "\n";

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The output of that is 

Time is Tue Dec 13 22:57:39 2005
Year is 2005

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That is as expected.

The documentation for Time::Piece shows these two methods:

$t->year                # based at 0 (year 0 AD is, of course 1 BC)
$t->_year               # year minus 1900

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I think it's clear that $t->year is simply the "zero" based year as we know them, and the $t->_year method is the year as we get it from the localtime function.

In reply to Re^5: Time::Piece strangeness take two by spiritway
in thread Time::Piece strangeness take two by InfiniteLoop

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