Re: Y2K - date parsing

# Byron Darrah wrote:
# > One thing that class has, which might be a nice thing to put into the
# > hypermail beta (?), is the way that it computes the century if given a
# > two-digit year: It chooses whichever century will result in placing the
# > date within fifty years of the current time. That helps insure against
# > fast or slow clocks and a few other things.
#
# I like that approach. I've had the notion for something like +/- 50 y from
# the century (or millennium, as the case may be :), but never got
# comfortable with a fixed limit. +/-50y from the *current* date seems like
# a generally reasonable approach.

The approach I added to hypermail to deal with two digit years is a direct rip off of Byron's idea and code. :)

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