OpenEuphoria

Re: Issue of the week

• Posted by Robert B Pilkington <bpilkington at JUNO.COM> Sep 28, 1998
• 484 views

On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:04:52 -0400 Matt Z Nunyabidness
<matt1421 at JUNO.COM> writes:
>Can Euphoria help the whole Y2K thingy? Are languages like COBOL and
>FORTRAN our only hope? What'll happen to the earth when the clock
>strikes 12 midnight on 1/1/00? I found something scary in Euphoria.
>The first argument date() returns is the year..........In double
>digits. So 1998 now reads 98 to Euphoria, and 2000 later will read 00
>to Euphoria.

Uhh... It returns the number of years since 1900. Year 2000 will return
100.

I think that it SHOULD return the number of years since and including
year 1, but it's a bit too late to change that . . . Programs wouldn't be
backwards compatible.

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