From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 22:28:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Call timegm and timelocal with 4-digit year
Message-ID: <xmqqbmgfs5m4.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180223172045.32090-1-bwiedemann@suse.de>

"Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann@suse.de> writes:

> amazingly timegm(gmtime(0)) is only 0 before 2020
> because perl's timegm deviates from GNU timegm(3) in how it handles years.
>
> man Time::Local says
>
>  Whenever possible, use an absolute four digit year instead.
>
> with a detailed explanation about ambiguity of 2-digit years above that.

That's amusing.  Will queue; thanks.