[plug] The Book from the Future

[Colin Muller]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 04:11:47PM +0800, skribe wrote:
> I've decided to try to learn Perl again.  So I went out and bought
> PERL by example.  It looked the best of all the howtos I could find
> in Perth.  So, I'm perusing the front of it and suddenly the
> copyright date leaps out and grabs my eye (bloody painful let me
> tell you =):   © 2002.  I wonder what calendar system they use at
> Prentice Hall.

The same one they use at UBD: their latest Perth Street Directory is
(C) 2002. I've wondered whether they might be endangering their
copyright claim by doing that. What would happen if I took their maps
and published them tomorrow with a (C) 2001?

Colin