Re: lynx-dev Re: LYNX: cursor showing strangely on screen in newest version

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Kim DeVaughn averred (on Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 02:04:50AM -0800):
| Hmmm ... firstly, something seems to be rather busted with your mail s/w,
| Tom.  Your Date: header is suddenly coming across the wire (in two consec-
| utive messages) as:
| 
|   Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 22:52:14 -72500 (EST)
|                                   ^^^^^^--------[should be -0500, of course]
| 
| which mutt (actually, strftime()) happily interprets as Jan 03, 1999 with
| %y/%Y as the year format tokens, or as Jan 03, 1998 using %g/%G.
| 
| Or is this an attempt to get a year up on the Y2K bugs ... :-) ...?

This happened to me yesterday too.  Also using mutt, and my timesone is
also -0500.  A message I sent a few hours before midnight had something
like -87500 in it (I don't have a copy any more).  

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