masem didn't actually mean a rollover - I think he was just using it as an analogy He meant "we're coming up to a point where all the nines go to zeros and we put a one in front".

I'm not quite sure what he means by check your string comparisons, because I can't see a way that it could change the outcome of a string comparison unless you were doing something terribly foolish like 

if (substr($this_dat,0,4) eq substr($that_date,0,4) {

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In which case it would come up false when you clearly would have wanted it to be true.

It was an interesting snippet anyway, just like yakko's below.

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In reply to Re: Re: The Y2.001775K Bug by jepri
in thread The Y2.001775K Bug by Masem

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