On 2009/05/23 21:35, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2009/05/23 21:25, olli hauer wrote:
> > Funny typo in ctime.3 
> > (but I belive OpenBSD will exist in the Year 81986)
> 
> That's intentional, it talks about years longer than four characters.
> i.e. 10000 and on.

..but on reflection that's a bit of a strange thing to talk about
when the argument is a time_t (currently int).. 

> 
> > 
> > 
> > Index: lib/libc/time/ctime.3
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/time/ctime.3,v
> > retrieving revision 1.36
> > diff -u -r1.36 ctime.3
> > --- lib/libc/time/ctime.3       23 Oct 2008 20:33:06 -0000      1.36
> > +++ lib/libc/time/ctime.3       23 May 2009 19:18:28 -0000
> > @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
> >  Years requiring fewer than four characters are padded with leading
> > zeroes.
> >  For years longer than four characters, the string is of the form
> >  .Pp
> > -.Dl Thu Nov 24 18:22:48\ \ \ \ \ 81986\en
> > +.Dl Thu Nov 24 18:22:48\ \ \ \ \ 1986\en
> >  .Pp
> >  with five spaces before the year.
> >  These unusual formats are designed to make it less likely that older

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