Curious dating behavior in PMMail 2000

[Chris Adams]

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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:04:54 -0500, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 23:56:23 +0900 (EST), John Angelico wrote:
>
>>>I have
>>>this one 
>>>correspondent who's 
>>>ISP has deliberately set the 
>>>date on their Sun Unix server back 
>>>28 years to save the trouble and cost of 
>>>actually fixing some Y2K bug. No, swear to God
>>
>>You'd better not - surely *nixes don't suffer from the stupidity of Y2K?? Could it have been their own joke on the 
>>wicked world of W Gates III?
>
>
>The correspondent is wrong!  Unix doesn't suffer from the same Y2K bug
>as the mainframes and the PC's.  Unix keeps it's date as the number of
>seconds since Jan. 1, 1970.  The current 32 bit Unix's will have a

Of course, as a lot of Y2k remediation showed, the Unix system designers
being smart doesn't mean that all Unix programmers were also smart.
Entirely too many of them did something stupid anyway...
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