[ale] Date passed to webmail

[Wandered Inn]

Back a couple of years ago, I recall running into a problem with dates
in Javascript.  Apparently, IE and Netscape handled them differently, so
we had to check to see what browser they were using and modify the year
accordingly.

Tom Younker wrote:
> 
> Fletch:
> 
> I did more research, and it looks like this product is   Ipswitch iMail ,
> running on NT or 2000.  The login screen says "last updated 18 Dec 98", so maybe
> it just needs to be patched.
> 
> The BIG question is, does it get a date from Linux incorrectly,? (since the
> techie at the ISP was using IE 5 to test and it worked OK.) I'm not aware that I
> have this problem when I access it from my moldy old Netscape 4.03 on Win 3.X,
> but will test is to be sure.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> Fletch wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Younker <twins at atlnet.com> writes:
> >
> >     Tom> All: When I use Netscape's mail, the message date is normal.
> >     Tom> When I use my webmail account, the year is not "2001" but
> >     Tom> "101", a big problem when messages are sorted by date.
> >
> >         Not knowing all the specifics, I'd guess that the webmail app
> > is written in Perl (or something that like perl just has a wrapper
> > around gmtime/localtime) and whomever wrote it doesn't understand that
> > it's returning years since 1900, not a two digit year.  This would
> > explain the 101 (2001 == (1900 + 101)).  It was common pre-y2k to see
> > code that just used something like `$year = (localtime)[5]' instead of
> > the correct `$year = (localtime)[5] % 100' to get a two digit year
> > value (since it worked fine up until last year).
> >
> >         But that's just a possible explanation.
> >
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