Re: Re: Patch
  By: digimaus to Deon George on Mon Sep 09 2024 12:53 am

Howdy,

 > DG> Is this Y2K stuff would fix Shawn's messages with a 2060 timestamp?
 >
 > I think so but I know very little about it.
 > I found this:
 >
 > Fido Year 2000 Tools Rel. 6 by Tobias Ernst

Oh, I was actually wanting to find out more detail about how the 2060 date is
made or fixed, so that I could reverse it and put it back to what it should be.
Does MBSE do it automatically?

I havent spent any time on it, so dont know if I need to convert it back to
epoch seconds and kill off a bit or two, or if there is some other formula.

A first glance 2060 is 60 years ahead of 2000, but we are not 60 years ahead of
1970 (so its not that simple). I also figured that its more than that, because
the month doesnt add up, unless it is also because (from memory?), months start
from zero in packed messages and hence why his dates were october.

My initial plan was to update clrghouz to reject any messages more an "x" days
from the current date (and send a netmail to the sender), but if I can fix
predicatable bad ones first, I'd prefer to do that.


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