Y2K TCL style

[Rob Seaman]

Sorry for the 75 character word-wrap, make that:

    > Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:09:43 +0100 (BST)
    > From: Lloyd Wood <L.Wood at surrey.ac.uk>
    > Subject: Tcl 8.0 Y2K Risk
    >
    >   There are also a few other minor incompatibilities in Tcl 8.0 and
    >   Tk 8.0:  [..] 2.2-digit years are now parsed differently by the
    >   clock command to handle year 2000 issues better (years 00-38 are
    >   treated as 2000-2038 instead of 1900-1938).
    >
    > Supporting two-digit years in the first place was risky enough,
    > but this change is bound to catch a lot of people out.
    > 
    > It looks like the millennium problem may have come early for
    > cutting-edge Tcl scripters with legacy code.

Let's see what I messed up in this newsreader...

Rob
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