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Diffstat (limited to 'time/strptime.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | time/strptime.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/time/strptime.c b/time/strptime.c index 4e91a719ac..30b015620d 100644 --- a/time/strptime.c +++ b/time/strptime.c @@ -543,7 +543,9 @@ strptime_internal (buf, format, tm, decided) case 'y': /* Match year within century. */ get_number (0, 99); - tm->tm_year = val >= 50 ? val : val + 100; + /* The "Year 2000 :The Millennium Rollover" paper suggests that + values in the range 69-99 refer to the twentieth century. */ + tm->tm_year = val >= 69 ? val : val + 100; break; case 'Y': /* Match year including century number. */ |