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On 26 Jan 2037, at 30:208, FODAC(at)aol.com wrote:

> I'm using the localtime function for a date when entries are
> submitted and I'm getting 20100 instead of 2000 for the year. I
> reduced the field size by one and got 205.  This is on a UNIX
> server. Could someone give me a brief explanation of how this
> function works? 

localtime() provides the current year with 1900 subtracted from it.  
Looks like your program is doing:

print "19", $year;

or something like that.  Use this instead:

$year = localtime(time)[5];
$year += 1900;
print $year;

or

$year = localtime(time)[5] + 1900;
print $year;

because TMTOWTDI.

fwiw, I normally initialize localtime() only once at the beginning of 
the prog, since you get a different result each time you initialize the 
function (even if only by a couple of milliseconds).

@now = localtime(time);
$year = $now[5} + 1900;
print $year;

HTH

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