Brian Servis wrote:
> The bug by the way is the result of sloppy programming.  There is a c
> library call that returns the year as the number of years from 1900,
> also used in perl's Time::Local.  Authors were using that as the two
> digit year or just appending it to 19, so you are either seeing years of
> 100 or years of 19100. 

Actually the bug is due to some annoying vagueness in the nntp RFC. Not
really slrn's fult.

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