[ale] Date passed to webmail

[Tom Younker]

Fletch & Wandered Inn:

I confirmed that my old Netscape 4.03 on Win 3.x results in a proper date.

When I look at the source when composing an email on this iMail product, I see
lots of Javascript.  But scanning for the word 'time' comes up empty, and the
word 'date' is only found in several *Validate functions.

I can't see where the Javascript looks for the time, but it does seem lacking in
some error-checking.  But this is a "mature" product --- shouldn't this have been
corrected by now?  But maybe the ISP hasn't kept the product up to date.

Tom

Fletch wrote:

> >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Younker <twins at atlnet.com> writes:
>
>     Tom> Fletch: I did more research, and it looks like this product
>     Tom> is Ipswitch iMail , running on NT or 2000.  The login screen
>     Tom> says "last updated 18 Dec 98", so maybe it just needs to be
>     Tom> patched.
>
>     Tom> The BIG question is, does it get a date from Linux
>     Tom> incorrectly,?  (since the techie at the ISP was using IE 5 to
>     Tom> test and it worked OK.)  I'm not aware that I have this
>     Tom> problem when I access it from my moldy old Netscape 4.03 on
>     Tom> Win 3.X, but will test is to be sure.
>
>         Hrrrmmm, that now sounds like it could be a javascript bug of
> a similar flavour (i.e. the javascript date display something is
> incorrectly using years-since-1900 as a two digit year).  I'm not
> familiar enough with javascript and it's myriad incarnations
> (thankfully :) to say either way authoritatively.
>
>         Only thing I could think to do at this point would be to look
> at the raw HTML and see if the date's in that correctly (as 2001), or
> if it's a time_t (seconds since 0000 Jan 1 1970) value that some local
> javascript is processing somehow to create the rendered date.
>
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