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| 14 | <H1>[IRCServices] Re: DALnet-src: Y2K bug in the ircd (dreamforge and below)</H1> | |
| 15 | <B>Andrew Church</B> | |
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| 17 | TITLE="[IRCServices] Re: DALnet-src: Y2K bug in the ircd (dreamforge and below)">achurch at dragonfire.net | |
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| 19 | <I>Mon Jan 3 11:24:21 PST 2000</I> | |
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| 34 | <PRE>>><i> Well my bug is in the date() function (s_misc.c), where the reply string | |
| 35 | </I>>><i> is generated: | |
| 36 | </I>>><i> | |
| 37 | </I>>><i> (void)sprintf(buf, "%s %s %d 19%02d -- %02d:%02d %c%02d:%02d", | |
| 38 | </I>>><i> weekdays[lt->tm_wday], months[lt->tm_mon],lt->tm_mday, | |
| 39 | </I>>><i> lt->tm_year, lt->tm_hour, lt->tm_min, | |
| 40 | </I>>><i> plus, minswest/60, minswest%60); | |
| 41 | </I>>><i> | |
| 42 | </I>>><i> The "19", for the centuary, is hardcoded. | |
| 43 | </I> | |
| 44 | <rant> | |
| 45 | Is it just me, or is this so completely braindead it's not even funny? | |
| 46 | Even assuming this is left over from the original ircd, that's still | |
| 47 | post-1990 code, and it would have taken some major guts (or stupidity) to | |
| 48 | assume that that code would no longer be in use by 2000. It doesn't even | |
| 49 | take any extra effort to write "%04d" and "lt->tm_year+1900" instead. | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | _This_ is why programming should be left to experts. | |
| 52 | </rant> | |
| 53 | ||
| 54 | --Andrew Church | |
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