Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 13:25:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Bartley <mbartley@lear35.cytex.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: trn-3.6 leap year bug fix Message-ID: <199607212025.NAA20762@lear35.cytex.com>
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This should go in as file /usr/ports/news/trn/patches/patches-aa:
------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------
--- nntp.c.orig Fri Nov 18 22:01:23 1994
+++ nntp.c Sun Jul 21 13:13:58 1996
@@ -319,8 +319,8 @@
for (month--; month; month--)
day += maxdays[month];
- ss = ((((year-1970) * 365 + (year-1968)/4 + day - 1) * 24L + hh) * 60
- + mm) * 60 + ss;
+ ss = ((((year-1970) * 365 + (year-1969)/4 + day - 1) * 24L + hh) * 60
+ + mm) * 60 + ss;
return ss;
}
------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------
The symptom of this leap year bug is that every time trn starts up, it
thinks there are new newsgroups, even when there are not.
This is a quick fix that was posted to Usenet a while ago. This will
work properly until the year 2100 (only). There is a longer, more
correct patch, but if anyone is still using trn-3.6 104 years from now
it would be pretty pathetic anyway.
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