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Re: rn bug

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Tue Jan 11 23:47:20 2000

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To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:05:17 EST."
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 23:47:11 -0500
From: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>


> p.s. JFC, I think a patch might not be looked at askance.

I don't have time to test a fix tonight, but I think that the following
code in trn-3.6/parsedate.y:Convert() displays a common Y2K bug:

    if (Year < 0)
        Year = -Year;
    if (Year < 100)
        Year += 1900;
    if (Year < EPOCH)
        Year += 100;

    --John Carr (jfc@mit.edu)

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