On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, John Peacock wrote:
> > if (length($yr) < 4)
> > warn ("Your year value is indeterminant. Performing SWAG[1]!");
>
> Then do a search on Google for "y2k window" and see how people suggested
> handling it. Yes, it _is_ completely bogus and arbitrary, why do you ask? But
> when dealing with malformed data, the old warhorse of GIGO[2] applies.
I think the standard is something along the lines of:
if ($year + 50 < ($current_year - 2000)) { $year += 1900 } else { $year += 2000 }
which could of course be generalized to work in the next century as well
;)
-dave
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