Subject: y2k

From: Dennis Gurgul <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:07:13 -0500 (EST)

I'm using 3.95.  Below is from the web faq.  Does "middle of next century" 
mean something like June 15, 2000?  Does this mean something like Feb 1,
2000 is NOT in the middle of the next century?  Or is this the 2038 thing?

Thanks, Dennis

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Internally, Pine has never stored years as two digit values. The
"last-time-pruned" variable might appear to be
problematic, as this century's dates are represented as two characters,
but this value is relative to the year 1900, so
the year 2000 will be represented as "100" and so on. However, Pine
version 3.96 and earlier do have a bug in their
date-sort routines for the message index such that messages with a date in
the middle of the next century will
incorrectly sort before current messages. This bug is corrected in the
Pine 4.00 code base. 

Dennis J. Gurgul
Helix Server Management
617.724.3169

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