Re: *ping*

[Eric Allman <eric@Sendmail.ORG>]

Fairly easy.  consider the date 010100 (January 1, 2000).  Now consider
what happens when 00 becomes 100 -- 101100 -- October 11.

eric


============= In Reply To: ===========================================
: From:  "Todd Williams" <todd@mscsoftware.com>
: Subject:  Re: *ping*
: Date:  Sat, 1 Jan 2000 11:58:02 -0800

: On Oct 12,  1:12, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
: > 
: > Elm 2.4*something with MIME/PGP patches shows the year as "100".
: 
: Interesting.  The only Y2K problem I've found so far is that Z-Mail 3.2.1
: lists incoming mail from Jan 1 2000 as having the date "Oct 11".
: I haven't investigated further since this is a minor problem on an
: old version of software.  But how it gets Oct 11 from Jan 1 intrigues me...
: 
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