date('now') returns 1 year from now? -- follow-up

Just tested "select date('now'::datetime)", and it returns the correct
date.

apx2=> select date('now'::datetime);

date

----------

12-30-1998

(1 row)

Charlie

<excerpt>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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