[ale] Date passed to webmail

[greg at turnstep.com]

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> Not knowing all the specifics, I'd guess that the webmail app
> is written in Perl (or something that like perl just has a
> wrapper around gmtime/localtime) and whomever wrote it 
doesn't
> understand that it's returning years since 1900, not a two
> digit year. 

Could be almost any C-based language: the tm struct 
in time.h has:

  int tm_year;   /* years since 1900 */

which perl uses, and C as well. All that aside, it was 
sloppy prgramming on somebody's part, especially 
since a webmail app could not have been written 
*too* much pre 2000. :) See [man ctime] for more.

Greg Sabino Mullane
greg at turnstep.com
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