Re: [PHP4BETA] cvs: /php4 php.ini-dist

From: Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:10:37 +0000
Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] cvs: /php4 php.ini-dist
References: 1  Groups: php.version4 
Request: Send a blank email to php-version4+get-10867@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message
Adam Trachtenberg wrote: > Are we sure this is right? I thought y2k_compilance had to with Web > browser y2k issues, not PHP issues. Just because we're past the beginning > on y2k doesn't mean people have upgraded their browsers, this will break > cookies for people using Netscape 3.x and below. > > http://www.php.net/y2k.php3 It makes PHP4 use four digit year numbers in ./ext/standard/datetime.c as per snprintf(str, 80, "%s, %02d-%s-%04d %02d:%02d:%02d GMT", compared to snprintf(str, 80, "%s, %02d-%s-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d GMT", This date is used in http headers such as cookie headers generated by PHP. Apache is using four digit year numbers everywhere anyway, for example Date and Last-Modified. Kristian -- Kristian Köhntopp, NetUSE Kommunikationstechnologie GmbH Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel, Germany, +49 431 386 436 00 Using PHP3? See our web development library at http://phplib.netuse.de/ (We have moved! Update your bookmarks!)

« previous php.version4 (#10867) next »