[lug] This Saturday: Unix - one gigasecond since the epoch

[Evelyn Mitchell]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:39:29PM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> Ugh...  That reminds me of the guy that Evelyn used to work with that built
> a Java-script date/time widget for the company page that hardcoded the
> data.  This was in 1998.  *OCTOBER* 1998.  <sigh>

Correction. He hardcoded the year, not the whole date.
As I recall, it was because he had a hard time understanding
perl timestructs which required the addition of 1900 to make a 
4 digit year. So, he just used the current month and day, and 
hardcoded the year.

efm