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Re: Wieste, Date problem?

Subject: Re: Wieste, Date problem?
From: Michael H. Warfield (mhwwittsend.com)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2000 - 11:12:15 CST

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 05:34:55PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 08:26:27AM -0800, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote:
> > On your mail with the patch 01 here is a short snippit from the header.
> >
> > Subject: Postfix 19991231 Patch 01 (Safety Net)
> > To: postfix-announcepostfix.org (Postfix announce)
> > Date: Sun, 2 Jan 100 18:18:31 -0500 (EST)
> > Cc: postfix-userspostfix.org (Postfix users)
> > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)]
> > From: wietseporcupine.org (Wietse Venema)
> >
> > Take a good look at the date line ;-)

> Yes, elm is not Y2k proof. I still hope Wietse will switch to mutt :)

        Mutt also has a Y2K problem. If you receive a message with a
date that includes a 2 digit year like "Jan 1, 00", Mutt interprets it
to be "Feb 7, 2036". If you get a four digit year like "Jan 1, 2000"
then everything is fine. I ran into this problem and then saw the commit
message yesterday for the fix on the mutt-dev list that indicated that
they fixed this on Jan 1. It's currently only in the CVS tree (and
presumably the snapshots) and not in a release yet.

> --
> Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
> It used to be said [...] that AIX looks like one space alien
> discovered Unix, and described it to another different space alien who
> then implemented AIX. But their universal translators were broken and
> they'd had to gesture a lot.
> 

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