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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-03-24 08:25:59 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-03-24 08:25:59 +0000
commit90ca0aaa9ee971d48ef4fbc776b168f3c1b02beb (patch)
tree945af646a5bb3310c272e7e08875572a2888baff /lib
parentcfa4c8ee34d5e6aaefc82d86c110245c9ffacb1d (diff)
downloadperl-90ca0aaa9ee971d48ef4fbc776b168f3c1b02beb.tar.gz
doc tweak
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@3143
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diff --git a/lib/Time/Local.pm b/lib/Time/Local.pm
index 2534028816..75bcc38eea 100644
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@@ -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