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in reply to Re^3: Why does localtime() return 1900-$YEAR?
in thread Why does localtime() return $YEAR-1900?

Perl was first released in 1987.
Quite true, but the Unix time structure (which defined the year as an offset from 1900) has been a de facto standard since around 1975.