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Parsing Malformed PDF Dates

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John Whitington

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Dec 4, 2009, 12:01:40 PM12/4/09
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Hi.

The date (from a Pagemaker 6.5 / Acrobat Distiller 3.01 PDF)

D:191000515121716

appears in a file I have. It appears to be entirely malformed
according to the spec, yet Acrobat reads it as:

15/05/2000 13:17:16

Preview fails reading it.

Is there some older date format, or something I'm missing?

Bernd Alheit

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Dec 5, 2009, 3:53:45 AM12/5/09
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1900 + 100 = 2000

Acrobat Distiller 3.01 was not designed for the use in year 2000 and later.

John Whitington

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Dec 5, 2009, 4:47:23 AM12/5/09
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Hi

Ah-hah! Thanks. I suppose I can fix this in my code.

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