Re: Y2K fix for 'elm' (Was: Re: How should NAT terminate ?)

From: Darren Reed (darrenrat_private)
Date: Wed Dec 31 1969 - 15:59:59 PST

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    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
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