Why is my script giving the year as 19100?

[setantae]

Why is my script giving the year as 19100?

Originally posted as a Categorized Question.

[heezy]

As mentioned above, the value returned is the number of years since 1900. To find the 'real' year you need to add 1900 to the year returned by localtime.

  ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(ti
+me);

        $year = $year + 1900;

Hope that helps

M

K.I.S.S

[setantae]

Because you're concatenating the result you got from localtime() with 19.
localtime() returns the number of years since 1900, which is 100 at the moment.
_{(Well, yeah, it returns a load of other stuff too, but I'll get to that another time).}


See the perlfunc:localtime node.