- From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 05:43:34 -0800 (PST)
- To: Rick Maas <rick@whooya.com>
- cc: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>, Style <www-style@w3.org>, HTML <www-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Rick Maas wrote: > David Perrell wrote: > > > > I'm glad to say I found the problem: In the course of a HD upgrade my > > system clock had somehow built a 100-year bridge to the 21st century > > and was set to 2096. Subsequent testing shows that dates beyond 2038 > > cause many unwanted side effects in Win95, including the aforementioned > > crashes when NS Mail receives a message so dated. [...] > > Hell, I didn't just crash, I had to uninstall and re-DL netscape ... I > hope nobody else had to do the same .... @ 14.4 .... but my blood > pressure is back to 120/80 again ;) You can both probably thank Microsoft for your problems. Apparently when writing their C compiler, they committed a serious error that causes *MANY* applications compiled with it to crash and burn for dates in the second half of the next century. I first ran into the problem when installing a UnionWay program that lets me view and type Japanese on my otherwise English version of Win95 (a good program by the way - quite worth the investment). After some rounds on the phone with the UnionWay tech support - they remembered having seen this before with bad system dates. I checked - sure enough, my system date was set to 2096. -- Benjamin Franz
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