Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:34:13 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> Cc: imp@village.org, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, danny@hilink.com.au Subject: Re: Y2K compliance question Message-ID: <199901161934.OAA06258@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <99Jan16.085538est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au> References: <99Jan16.085538est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au>
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<<On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 08:56:12 +1100, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> said: >> : src/usr.bin/fetch/http.c >> >> There appears to be a minor nit in parsing two digit dates. It >> appears to assume that they are in 1900..1999. > IMHO, that code can get dates in the form "Monday, 27-Jan-1997 14:31:09" > as well as 2 digit years. If it actually gets a 4-digit year, it will > confuse mktime(). If it should ever get a date in such a format, then the server is seriously broken and whatever fetch does is irrelevant. RFC 850 dates have a two-digit year, period. (And mktime() doesn't get confused, it simply returns an error.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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