At 11:23 PM 3/29/00 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I don't see a message about this in my archive of messages to this list.
>
>Is VMS Perl in some sense Y2K-compliant? If so, was there a particular
>version
>at which that compliance was achieved or which was the first one to be
>generally considered to be compliant?
I think there's a Y2K statement on www.perl.com somewhere about this.
Perl itself's Y2K compliant. It doesn't use dates internally anywhere, and
the bits that do use dates either handle years correctly or do Unix
epoch-seconds. Either way you're OK. The VMS-specific bits of perl are OK
too, so you're fine all around. User code can be screwy, of course (lots of
folks don't read the localtime docs properly), but that's a separate problem.
I don't know that anyone's gone looking to see how far back perl's OK. I
wouldn't be surprised if all the 5.x versions are, nor that perl 4 is OK. I
think folks only looked as far back as 5.004, though.
Dan
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