* Re: Last friday was 30 years ago?
[not found] <wtnya8oudac.fsf@licia.dtek.chalmers.se>
@ 2000-04-20 21:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2000-04-20 21:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:
> is accoring to X-Sent 30 years old:
> X-Sent: 30 years, 6 weeks, 1 day, 7 hours, 9 minutes, 44 seconds ago
>
> I know that the snail-mail services are slow, but recieving an *e*mail
> that is older that oneself and possible older then the Internet...
Well, the Date header is invalid:
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 23:40:1 +0800
The date parsing functions weren't able to parse this, so we got "the
beginning of time" back as the result, and time began, as we know, in
1970. Therefore, 30 years ago.
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