Hi,

On 2014-11-21 19:11:48, Nicholas Boel wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Re: Final Test":

 WV>> It had the date set to:

 WV>> 01 Jan 70  00:00:00

 NB> Maybe that's what Golded, HPT, or sbbsecho starts their dates of messages
 NB> with?

If you know a little bit about programming in C. You would know that:

time_t t = 0;

Defines the date: 00:00 hours, Jan 1, 1970 UTC

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/time_t/

So you are probably right! ;)

 WV>> It seems one of the in between systems (140/1 221/1 203/0) "fixed"
 WV>> the date on the message. I don't know if that's the behaviour you
 WV>> want? My system dumped it in the BAD area with a "message too old"
 WV>> error.

 NB> Personally, I would rather messages NOT be fixed by any system. How do you
 NB> find and fix errors out there if systems are auto-correcting the original
 NB> date/time?

Indeed. But when a system does fix a date it should at least report it did so.
Not just in the systems logs, which probably won't be noticed. But with for
instance a warning in a kludge line in the message...

Bye, Wilfred.


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