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Re: 1969???

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Subject: Re: 1969???
From: rekeen@mtu.edu (Robert Keen)
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 18:48:46
Dan, Todd, and all-

I think the problem lies with Dan's email program; he's apparently
using the UNIX email program elm.  Our sys admins told us in Dec that
most versions of elm were not y2k compliant; they found a compliant
one for us.

--Bob Keen
68 1600
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On Thu, 06 Jan 2000 13:58:22 Todd Greenwalt wrote:
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=  My guess is that is an issue with some PC software between you and
=  me. The PC hardware starts counting the days with January 1, 1970.
=  I image the software is doing some signed math with unsigned numbers
=  and subtracting from 1970. It appears that the format of your year
=  does not have enough digits to support 2000, therefore, causing the
=  confusion. You may have date format option that will fix this. This
=  is clearly something we will live through.
=
= Daniel Neuman wrote:
=  > 
=  > Hello All,
=  > I happen toliek the year 1969 very much (it was the year I was
=  > born) but several people have emailed me and said that my letters
=  > to the list are date stamped 1969???  Don't know how this could be.
=  > These come from my university account which is running on a unix
=  >box. When I check the date from the command prompt I get the correct
=  >date.  Does anybody have an idea what could be happening???
=  >                 thanks,
=  >                         Daniel
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