On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:49:26PM +0000, Lars Hecking wrote:
> I'm not sure about the if (tm.tm_year < 70) part. According the UNIX98
> specification by The Open Group, which has been adopted by all major
> Unix vendors, two-digit years 69-99 refer to the 20th century (19xx),
> and 00-68 refers to the 21st century (20xx), so I think this line of code
> should really read
The UNIX clock can't represent dates before January 1, 1970 0:00:00 UTC, so
it doesn't make any sense to change the heuristic from its current method.
me
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