date('now') returns 1 year from now?

From: Charles Hornberger <hornberger(at)tabloid(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: date('now') returns 1 year from now?
Date: 1998-12-31 00:37:16
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.19981230163716.00b82aa0@tabloid.net
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Plz forgive me if I'm missing something obvious. I just entered "select
date('now') into psql and got the following:

apx2=> select date('now');
date
----------
12-31-1999
(1 row)

Clearly today is not the last day of 1999.

The system date (`date` in the shell returns "Wed Dec 30 16:51:03 PST
1998") is correct.

(I'm running Postgres 6.4 on Linux 2.0.35.)

Thanks,
Charlie

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