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

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () cospo osis gov>]

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?  ;-)]

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Joe Yao                         jsdy () cospo osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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