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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 |