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

[Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>]

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                               jsdy () cospo osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
> COSPO/OSIS Computer Support                                   EMT-B
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