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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 15:40:24 GMT
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 05:40:30 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com>
wrote:
> Anyway, I didn't mean broken in the non-workable sense, I meant broken in
> the poorly-designed sense[1].
Oh, absolutely.
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> 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.
Yup. Maybe this was back when dates in Date: were also stored as two
digits? (At least, ISTR that used to be the case).
Ah well, on to Y10K.
Jasper
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