Curious dating behavior in PMMail 2000

[Brian Morrison]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:44:07 -0500, Michael Baum wrote:

>When you open one of his messages, 
>the date window "correctly" reports a day in 1972. On  the whole 
>you'd kind of exepct his mail to all sort to the bottom of a folder sorted by 
>message date, but in that context (a folder display, that is) the year is reported 
>as 3872, so in fact they all sort to the top.
>
>Curious.
>

That's because the date window simply shows the contents of the Date:
header in the message file, as it should.

The folder view stores the date referenced to some point or other and
it so happens that a date that far back is pre PC era and so displays
in a rather bizarre way. Remember that the Unix file system works in
seconds after 1 January 1970 and the PC did not appear until after 1
January 1980. That probably explains it, but no why the ISP is burying
their head in the sand rather than fixing their problem correctly.

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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
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