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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-03-24 08:25:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-03-24 08:25:59 +0000 |
| commit | 90ca0aaa9ee971d48ef4fbc776b168f3c1b02beb (patch) | |
| tree | 945af646a5bb3310c272e7e08875572a2888baff /lib/Time/Local.pm | |
| parent | cfa4c8ee34d5e6aaefc82d86c110245c9ffacb1d (diff) | |
| download | perl-90ca0aaa9ee971d48ef4fbc776b168f3c1b02beb.tar.gz | |
doc tweak
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@3143
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Time/Local.pm b/lib/Time/Local.pm index 2534028816..75bcc38eea 100644 --- a/lib/Time/Local.pm +++ b/lib/Time/Local.pm @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ values, the following conventions are followed: Years greater than 999 are interpreted as being the actual year, rather than the offset from 1900. Thus, 1963 would indicate the year -of Martin Luther King's assassination, not the year 2863. +Martin Luther King won the Nobel prize, not the year 2863. =item * @@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ two digit dates. Whenever possible, use an absolute four digit year instead. The scheme above allows interpretation of a wide range of dates, particularly if 4-digit years are used. + Please note, however, that the range of dates that can be actually be handled depends on the size of an integer (time_t) on a given platform. Currently, this is 32 bits for most systems, yielding an approximate range |