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Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 2 Jan 2000 05:40:30 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jasper Janssen writes:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 02:58:29 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
> wrote:
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> > This'll fix the problem Tony Priestman discovered, but there still may be
> > other problems lurking around. I'm pretty surprised actually that even
> > CNews had a Y2K bug. I guess CNews is just *so* old (it goes back to the
> > 1980's, I think), and the NNTP protocol itself is broken, as MattM pointed
> > out.
>
> The NNTP protocol is _not_ Y2K broken going by the quoted bit of RFC,
> though. Assuming Epoch for NNTP is the reasonable assumption, and the
> RFC specifies what to do with that assumption - so NNTP isn't broken
> for another 70 years (By which time Epoch will have been broken for a
> while ;) ). At the very least, by the example given in the RFC, it 'll
> be another 30 years before the assumption breaks.
Sorry, you're right, and I didn't mean to misquote Matthew.
Anyway, I didn't mean broken in the non-workable sense, I meant broken in
the poorly-designed sense[1].
The NNTP protocol shouldn't have to define that a two-digit year means
1900+xx for xx>=70 and 2000+xx for x<70. It should just always have had 4
digits for the year[2], especially when it's not something that's stored in
zillions of places on a disk -- it's just a protocol line command, and what
it gets back as a respone typically dwarfs those time digits.
--Todd
[1] Similar to the way English is "broken" compared to, say, Latin or
something. Or the way Mega-Bloks are "broken" compared to LEGO. :)
[2] Err, why stop at 4, even? It should just have been [0-9]+ followed by
a space, for darn tootin' sakes. :)
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