Curious dating behavior in PMMail 2000

[Andrew Webber]

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

>I have this one correspondent whose 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
>I'm not making this up. 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.

One of the mailing lists I'm on has someone in that position too. 
His signature line is "[Yes, it says 1972.  It's not my fault.]"
(domain is CapAccess.org).

What's weird is, as you say, my list of messages, sorted in reverse
order by date, has him at the top

  xx/xx/72
  xx/xx/00
  xx/xx/99

It was like this in PMMail98 too.  On balance it's better than
being way down at the bottom, but it's still strange inasmuch as
when I open one of his messages it clearly says "1972".


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