Re: [CSCMail-Users] No subject

[Daniel S. <np...@gm...>]

you're right, but its not due to a database column-length limit. In the
database the date is stored as "text" and there are several different date
formats in this column. So it is cscmail that causes the bug (or perl).

Daniel


Gavin Brown wrote:

> I've been doing a bit of investigation and I think (although I'm not sure)
that CSCMail might have a bug. It would probably apply to Pronto too. The short
explanation is:
> 
> CSCMail's got the Billenium Bug!
> 
> It seems that all mail in any folder with a date after the Billenium (when
the UNIX epoch became 1000000000, or Sun Sep 9 01:46:39 2001) is listed
*before* all mail before that date. I guess that the first digit is stripped
off to fit the database column, so that a mail message with a date of
1001939646 becomes 001939646. This is obviously < 999999999, and so is sorted
above it.
> 
> Can other people check their systems and make sure I'm not being dumb? I've
found this on both my work and home boxes.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gavin.
> 
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