Re: Is this a known bug of sendmail or ucbmail?

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From: Bruce Lilly
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:13

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In article <1h7sguINNicd@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) wrote:
>
>A user sent me a copy of a message he had received, containing the line
>	Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 13:35:01 +45722724
>which causes ucbmail to say
> N 53 scotty@cats.UCSC.EDU  Mon Dec 21 16:10  19/713   "Re: Xerox 820 word pr"
> >  54 jacques@cats.UCSC.ED  Wed Jun 22 09:27  23/912   "Re: time weirdness"
>note the weird date.  
>
>Is this some well-known bug that I haven't seen the fix for?

It's the result of feeding a bad header-- the "+45722724" is
bogus, but resembles a +hhmm time offset from UT.

The display of the date is clearly a user agent (ucbmail, in
your case) issue. Most likely the bogus field is being
interpreted as an offset of 45 hours, 722724 minutes (about a
year and a half).
-- 
    Bruce Lilly, Product Manager,      | bruce@Broadcast.Sony.COM
    Routers, Peripherals & Still Store,| uunet!sonyusa!sonyd1!bruce
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From: bruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM (Bruce Lilly)
Subject: Re: Is this a known bug of sendmail or ucbmail?
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:13:18 GMT
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