Small Y2k fix for the makezones Perl Script
Tony Stoneley
ajms at cus.cam.ac.uk
Tue Jan 4 18:03:57 UTC 2000
In article <20000103205841.15813.qmail at moderated.news.pipex.net>,
Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> We have been using Philip Hazel's excellent makezones perl
>script
And so are we, Philip Hazel's establishment, and thank you for drawing
the problem to our attention just hours before it bit us!
An updated version is available from
ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/DNS/makezones-0.32
> Our fix was to stick a little arithmetic in there and simply
>add 0 to the value gotten from the date and the script now works
>perfectly again.
Alternatively, the back-tick generated string could be chomped.
Alternatively again, and what is in fact in 0.32, is to use
perl's localtime and sprintf the pieces.
Apologies/condolences to anyone else who got bitten.
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