Hmmm, I think I'm going to filter all email which mentions this to /dev/null and let people get all bothered about it by themselves. Personally, if I were given a choice between 100AD and 2000AD, it'd be tought to choose which one I'd prefer. In some email I received from Joseph S D Yao, sie wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 09:38:44PM +0100, Mikael Olsson wrote: > > BTW, your copy of ELM has Y2K problems: > > "Date: Sat, 8 Jan 100 01:04:08 +1100 (EST)" *ahem* :-) > > ^^^ > > Known problem. All too common. > > Solutions include: > (1) switch to Mutt <URL: http://www.mutt.org/> > (2) switch to newer version of 'elm' (2.5.2), losing all the mods that > people have made to 2.4* > (3) switch to Mutt, which has all of those capabilities and more. > (4) modify lib/getarpdate.c: > char * > get_arpa_date() > { > ... > if ((year = curr_tm.tm_year) < 100) > year += 1900; > to read instead: > year = curr_tm.tm_year + 1900; > (5) switch to Mutt > (6) switch to Mutt > > [Can you guess which one I implemented for stubborn folks, and which > one I did for myself? ;-)] > > -- > Joe Yao jsdyat_private - Joseph S. D. Yao > COSPO/OSIS Computer Support EMT-B > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is not an official statement of COSPO policies. >
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