Curious dating behavior in PMMail 2000

[Andrew Webber]

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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:52:23 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:

>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.

I'm not familiar with this folder view that shows 3872.  Is that a
/2 option?  The closest I can think of is the three-pane view, but
my list of messages shows "23/03/72".


andrew [awebber@wwwebbers.com]
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