On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:17:57 +0100
Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted:

>On Monday 01 Sep 2003 3:49 am, Erylon Hines wrote:
>> O.K. guys, help me solve this.  My wife gets forwarded messages
>> from a server for a group that she belongs to.  Each one of these
>> has the date, Wednesday 31 December, 1969 4:00PM
>> The sending server's date is correct and sends it out correctly (at
>> least the admin thinks so, although the format may be somewhat
>> unusual).  In fact, he sent a copy of the last message, and this is
>> the date he received on the form:
>> Date: Wed Aug 20 20:40:37 PDT 2003
>> Other people on her list get the correct date with their e-mail
>> readers, but Kmail gives the bogus date.  These messages are
>> on-line applications, and my wife really needs to keep them
>> organized by date, so I desperately need a fix.
>> What is this "magic" date (Wednesday 31 December, 1969 4:00PM is
>> obviously not chosen randomly), and what does it tell me?
>>
>> Help--I have confidence in you guys!
>
>I assume that this comment is linked - 
>
>Most of the mail |I get in kmail is correctly dated, but from time to 
>time I get one dated 01 January 1970.  I have seen the 31 December 
>1969 as well.
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Isn't the December, 1969 date the beginning of Unix Time???
Mike

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