- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:11:19 -0800
- To: "Style" <www-style@w3.org>, "HTML" <www-html@w3.org>
It was brought to my attention that my posts to these lists have caused Netscape Mail running on Win95 to crash. I tried to test this by sending myself a message but was unable to run NS Mail at all. 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. Having returned to the present, I retrieved my previously sent test message dated 2096, and, sure enough, NS Mail crashed. Sorry if anyone experienced this problem. It was not intentional. (Also sorry that I rewrote/resent a 'transparent text' post on www-style. I thought one of these crashes had trashed the message.) David Perrell
Received on Friday, 22 November 1996 20:21:51 UTC