Re: Ambiguous years (what does 03 mean?)

[Eugene van der Pijll]

John Peacock schreef:
> >Given the date 02/11/03 in the locale en_US (so you can assume m/d/y),
> >what year is that in?

3.

> Add the following code (modulo what you called the year variable):
> 
> >if (length($yr) < 4)
> >     warn ("Your year value is indeterminant.  Performing SWAG[1]!");

Why are years < 1000 indeterminant?

Eugene