Re: 3 Y2K problems...

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 09:55 AM 1/3/00 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:

>	Printing with "genscript" reports the year as "100" in the fancy
>"-G" headers.  Not sure if it's a genscript problem, a ghostscript problem,
>or a problem with a postscript printer.  I suspect genscript.  Don't know
>if "enscript" on the RedHat CD's is similarly affected.  If not, time to
>change.  :-)

I don't know anything about genscript but this is an issue with the Perl
time functions which seemed until a few days ago (i.e., to those who had
not RTFM)  to return two-digit dates but in fact returns 100 for 200, 101
for 2001, etc.  If it's open source and perl-based, the fix may be easy
enough; just add 1900 instead of doing what it's doing now.

-Alan
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