Data.Time.Clock parseTime's %y parses "08" as 1908

[simonmic]

$ ghci --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.8.2
$ ghci
GHCi, version 6.8.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Prelude>
Prelude> :m + System.Locale Data.Time.Clock Data.Time.Format
Prelude Data.Time.Format Data.Time.Clock System.Locale> parseTime defaultTimeLocale "%y" "08" :: Maybe UTCTime
Loading package old-locale-1.0.0.0 ... linking ... done.
Loading package time-1.1.2.0 ... linking ... done.
Just 1908-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

[simonmic]

$ ghci --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.8.2
$ ghci
Prelude> :m + System.Locale Data.Time.Clock Data.Time.Format
Prelude Data.Time.Format Data.Time.Clock System.Locale> parseTime defaultTimeLocale "%y" "08" :: Ma$
Just 1908-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

[simonmic]

Gaah.. one more time

$ ghci --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.8.2
Prelude> :m + System.Locale Data.Time.Clock Data.Time.Format
Prelude Data.Time.Format Data.Time.Clock System.Locale> parseTime defaultTimeLocale "%y" "08" :: Maybe UTCTime
Just 1908-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

[igloo]

My strptime(3) manpage says:

       %y     The year within century (0-99).  When a century is not otherwise
              specified, values in the range 69-99 refer to years in the twen‐
              tieth century (1969-1999); values in the range  00-68  refer  to
              years in the twenty-first century (2000-2068).

[simonmic]

I see this on both mac osx leopard and ubuntu hardy.

[igloo]

Still happens with time-1.2.0.4.

[igloo]

Ashley, any chance you could take a look at this please?

[Ashley Yakeley]

Fixed in time-1.2.0.5.

[igloo]

We now have time-1.2.0.5.