From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 1 12:41:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 785F114E3A for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 12:41:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA15322; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 12:41:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id MAA27807; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 12:41:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990401142855.A51574@dan.emsphone.com> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 12:41:02 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Dan Nelson Subject: Re: Dates off by 1 year (was: Fools Day Joke ?) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, nnd@itfs.nsk.su Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Nelson wrote: > I've seen this too, on other FTP servers. I doubt it's an NFS problem, > since there is no reason for NFS to add/subtract exactly one year from > the date. ... > So I'd say it's a bug in NcFTP's date parser. Bingo! It looks like you're right. I noticed that the file's time was later than the current time, too (disregarding the year). > I'm willing to bet that Nickolay is also using NcFTP I don't doubt that. But for me it happened using Netscape. Thanks for solving this mystery! John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief." -- James V. DeLong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message