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Date:      Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:23:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au
Cc:        paulo@isr.uc.pt, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mirror dies with FPE
Message-ID:  <199701140623.WAA01237@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199701140110.MAA02102@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> (message from David Dawes on Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:10:50 %2B1100 (EST))

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 * Yes, I've seen this too.  It happens because there is a file in
 * /pub/FreeBSD/distfiles with its mtime set to the Epoch, which in PST
 * (cdrom.com's timezone) is 31 Dec 1969.  This is an invalid date in

This is because of a bug in fetch.  I just opened a PR for it.

 * Since the timestamp on the offending file(s) didn't get fixed when
 * I mentioned it a while back, I modified mirror to avoid the problem:

Nonetheless, mirror shouldn't die because of it.  Should this patch be
applied to the mirror port?

 * *** /usr/local/lib/mirror/dateconv.pl.save	Fri Nov  1 17:28:54 1996
 * --- /usr/local/lib/mirror/dateconv.pl	Sun Nov 24 23:18:08 1996
 * ***************
 * *** 111,116 ****
 * --- 111,120 ----
 *   	if( $year > 1900 ){
 *   		$year -= 1900;
 *   	}
 * + 
 * + 	if( $year < 70 ){
 * + 		$year = 70;
 * + 	}
 *   	 
 *   		$x = &'timelocal( $secs, $mins, $hours, $day, $month, $year );
 *   	if( $use_timelocal ){
 * 
 * 

Satoshi



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