From: Gurusamy Sarathy Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:25:59 +0000 (+0000) Subject: doc tweak X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=90ca0aaa9ee971d48ef4fbc776b168f3c1b02beb;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git doc tweak p4raw-id: //depot/perl@3143 --- diff --git a/lib/Time/Local.pm b/lib/Time/Local.pm index 2534028..75bcc38 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