Mail problems, not microsoft
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.
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. -- - Jared On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 06:12:44PM -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:
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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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.
Similar minor problem here. An ancient version of GNU date was still in-use, and it didn't seem to like the year. $ date -d "`date`" date: invalid date. heh. New version fixed it right up. $ date -d "`date`" Sun Jan 2 21:14:51 PST 2000
Similar minor problem here. An ancient version of GNU date was still in-use, and it didn't seem to like the year.
$ date -d "`date`" date: invalid date.
Indeed, date seems to be one of the things which required patching. On a retired, unpatched, SunOS 4.1.3_U1 machine, date returned strange things:
date +%y%m%d produces :00103
date +%Y%m%d gives date: bad format character - Y
once patched it gives 000103 and accepts %Y date +%Y%m%d 20000103
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