*** Version 2.02: CPAN Emergency Release *** Tom Christiansen has passed the pumpking for Date::GetDate over to me to make a Y2K emergency release. The reason is that the original getdate library that is being used in this module, has a considerable Y2K bug that manifests itself in such a way that *any* date after Dec 31, 1999 is considered illegal. This release doesn't try to solve the problem, instead it provides a workaround that uses Date::Parse::str2time as a fallback function for any illegal date that is encountered. The module emits a warning at startup if Date::Parse isn't available, and it dies for dates >= 2000 if Date::Parse isn't available. As the test case contains a date beyond, they cannot be completed without Date::Parse. Unless a volunteer shows up who fixes the bug completely, this module should be regarded as deprecated. Please replace Date::GetDate with one of the other modules for parsing dates, i.e. either Date::Parse or Time::ParseDate. (I do not have any hard facts which of the two is more appropriate nowadays) 1998-07-11, andreas koenig *** CPAN Emergency Release *** To convert getdate.y into getdate.c, you must not only run something yaccish on it, you must also s/yy/THISyy/g due to conflict problems with perl's own yacc grammar. Tom Christiansen tchrist@perl.com Wed Nov 9 09:48:32 MST 1994