[26532] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mail problems, not microsoft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Sun Jan 2 21:39:59 2000
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 21:37:29 -0500
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: owen@dixon.delong.sj.ca.us, nanog@merit.edu
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This is because of the localtime() call.
I had to fix one of my programs that I didn't notice it
was doing this until after the day went past.
It was writing it's log files that get parsed nightly
as 1000101 instead of 000101.
man localtime says:
--
tm_year
The number of years since 1900.
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- Jared
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 06:12:44PM -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> On Sun, 02 January 2000, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > I don't even assume that anyone elses mail system works, let
> > alone that it works this way, or even complies with the RFC's.
> >
> > There's way too much MicroSoft stuff out there to believe
> > any of that. I merely purport that the above is BCP.
>
> Actually I haven't heard of any Microsoft mail problems in
> the last two days. Almost all the problems have been with
> old UNIX mailers putting "100" as the year on messages.
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