On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Ken Yap wrote:
> The one harmless glitch I did notice is that unzip 5.32 displayed archive
> member dates as:
>
> ... 01-01-100 ...
>
> Aha, the typical mistake of subtracting 1900 to get the years. I installed
> 5.40 and the glitch was gone.
On a similar, and more serious note, it seems there is a big browser
issue with the Year 2000.
Netscape and IE can return the date as 2 digits in javascript. A lot of
sites use this to display the date on their site.
Unfortunately, when 99 switched over, Netscape made it 100 and IE made it
2000 :) So now it's 3900 according to a LOT of sites in IE :) But 2000
according to Netscape :)
Also, gigabyte have an error in their Javascript which is something like..
If year < 100 add 1900 else add 2000
Which is very stupid when you look at it :)
And makes their site display 4000 in IE and 2100 in Netscape =)
Andrew.
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