I need to parse strings representing 6-digit dates in the format yymmdd where yy ranges from 59 to 05 (1959 to 2005). According to the time module docs, Python's default pivot year is 1969 which wo...

With Java 8, the code below parses "18" into year "0018" instead of "2018". DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("M/d/y"); return LocalDate.parse(date, formatter); input dat...

I was reading basics of Perl programming language and I came across the following statement Perl is Y2K compliant. Did not quite get what it meant even after some Googling. Is it some kind of st...

There are a lot of reports of systems failing to understand the year 2010 but I've no idea why. Current systems I look after are working fine as far as I could tell but I'd like to know what the ac...