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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