Re^2: 2013 year compliant (humor)

Just to be explicit... it is invalid. It is a joke.

The document is a joke, but the statement is not invalid at all. Perl has no problem with year 2013 (or 2014 or 2015 or...), and shortly, it won't have any problem with the year 2038 either.

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Re^3: 2013 year compliant (humor) by rowdog (Curate) on Apr 13, 2009 at 18:02 UTC
Unless I'm missing something, it's fine today, if you have enough bits. `$ perl -wle"print scalar gmtime 0x7FFFFFFF" Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 $ perl -wle"print scalar gmtime 0x80000000" Tue Jan 19 03:14:08 2038 $ perl -v This is perl, v5.10.0 built for x86_64-linux` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: 2013 year compliant (humor) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 13, 2009 at 19:19 UTC
It currently depends on the system and build.	[reply]