On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Gerd wrote:
> At login, FBB showed a date of 01.01.190 (yes, that's no typo!).
> Although we were estonished we stopped further investigating this
> problem since we didn't want to corrupt our mail database.
>
> Because we all are no C specialists we have one question: Will
> there be a fix available timely or will we have to migrate to some
> other BBS?
There will be no fix from F6FBB, his solution is to upgrade to a later
version.
This is a problem for those FBB BBSes running v5 code on hardware
which isn't man enough for v7.
The important thing which comes out of this is that software authors
should expect the unexpected when processing timestamps.
It's also worth remembering that tm.year isn't a 2 digit number,
and that printf("02d",int i) can print more than 2 characters.
73, Andrew G8FSL
--
Andrew Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nortel Networks, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1279 402372 Fax: +44 1279 405746
I speak for myself, my views are not necessarily the views
of Nortel Networks or any other corporation.
