[CentOS] I thought Y2K was over with?

Gilbert Sebenste sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu
Sat Jan 2 22:50:59 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Benjamin Donnachie wrote:

> 2010/1/2 Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu>:
>> Apparently not. On a command line, type:
>> date '+%G'
>
> Looks perfectly correct to me - from man strftime
>
>     %G    is replaced by a year as a decimal number with century.  This year
>           is the one that contains the greater part of the week (Monday as
>           the first day of the week).
>
> Maybe you want %Y?
>
>     %Y    is replaced by the year with century as a decimal number.
>
> Ben

Ahhhh, that explains it. You are correct! Never mind. Thanks for the 
pointer!

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